“Laszlo,” said Maja loudly.
He smiled back at her as if he hadn’t heard her. He’d just put his earphones in to listen to music, and with that, he was off.
“Humph,” said Maja to herself. ‘I’ll leave his duties until four and if he’s not back I’ll do them. But I’m going to say something to him later,’ she thought. Then she put her frustration out of her mind and made herself a coffee. The sun was shining, the garden was in full bloom and she went and sat on the bench and did some revision. As she revised the ‘Theory of the Firm,’ for Economics, Maja had the pleasant experience of the sun warming her body and the aroma of the flowers and bushes in the garden wafting through her nostrils. She looked up momentarily and noticed the towering, white, anvil shaped cumulonimbus clouds in the sky.
