“Wow! Who would have thought? Whenever I need you, you appear, Regina,” remarked Deniska, taking off the large black sunglasses from her eyes, fixing her hair, and giving me a smile, “Do you have time now?”
—Actually, I'm heading to a breakfast meeting. Has something happened?
I looked at her attentively, she seemed very anxious, and her child's crying only worsened her situation. It was so strange, in two days I had run into her a couple of times, and we had started a kind of inexplicable friendship, so I felt bad being the one to decline the proposal this time because of my commitment to Kalev.
—Quite a lot, actually —she said with a choked voice—, but I won't bother you, go to your breakfast, I'll go to a friend's house for a couple of days.
She had a red cheek, as if she had been h
