For several days he was unable to get this episode out of his head. How was he supposed to behave, so as not to offend her? Of course, he could have made a woman of her, without making a mother of her too. She wasn’t repulsive to him by any means, but as he was well versed in such matters he knew from the outset what it would have led to, above all for her. This young girl wanted to be loved and she imagined that if I had started to remove her jumper she would have felt something extraordinary. Whatever you did then would be wrong, it would all be so traumatic. Lord preserve us from situations like this …
On the day of the winter equinox the final act of this rural drama was played out. The wind is howling and he is sitting in the warmth of his house. It hasn’t snowed yet, and there will
