“You won’t catch anything.”
“Why not? How am I any better than you?”
“You’re not.”
And she looked at me for a long time.
And confessed:
“When Dovid came to take Yosenka away, he told me literally, ‘After Lilka Vorobeichik your husband has nothing to lose. Laevskaya thinks he has but I’ve told her he hasn’t. But you, Lyuba, you do have something to lose. You’ve got Gannusya. And Ioska’s contaminated. Give him back to me.’ So, I thought and thought all the time I was in hospital, and I’m still turning his words over and over.”
All in all, this was madness if not worse. Why ‘after Lilia Vorobeichik’? What had she got to do with it? It was obvious even without a doctor: going through a great tragedy is extremely difficult. Lyubochka needed to recover. To take her mind right away from rea
