—I imagine it must also frustrate her to have to spend more time in the hospital instead of going home to her family—I said, as the young woman began to move forward, perhaps intending to go to her sister's office, but she stopped to wait for me, maybe wanting us to continue talking.
—Oh, no!—the young woman smiled, a bit sheepish—my sister doesn't have a family of her own, well, she has me and Dad, but she never got married.
—Because of her career?—I guessed, although I actually knew more or less the answer to that question.
—Actually, my sister was engaged once a long time ago, but...—she fell silent, perhaps pondering her words, and I thought she wouldn't tell me anything at all—her fiancé called off the engagement a couple of months before the wedding.
—And why was that?—I asked, f
