When dinner was finished, and the plates had been cleared, Emily hesitated in the doorway, and Jonah came out to see her. Then Sonja sidled up to Emily, and Jonah slipped away again, back into the kitchen.
“You know, lovie,” said Sonja. “When your Bubbie Blima and I were young, we thought it was our job to visit every person who came to the lodge and ask them if they were having a good time. ‘Has your stay been marvellous?’ and ‘We hope that your stay has been just marvellous,’ that sort of thing. That’s what we said. That’s what was done then. We started when I was just three years old.”
“That’s cute.”
“I think it’s nice for people in the family to visit.”
“Oh,” said Emily. She folded herself in the little space where the two walls met, exactly where she’d stood with Jonah. Only, it w
