Chapter Fourteen“Let's go for a ride through the city, shall we, älskling?”
“Please, Karl. Don't call me darling. Not even in Scandinavian.”
“Sorry.”
“I don't feel the same way.”
“I'm not handsome enough for you, ja?”
“Ja.” She laughed. Karl was very handsome.
Aarhus was beautiful in the evening, although the mounds of snow glimmered with cold, like the bones of old ghosts. Not only the Queen and consort of Denmark, but Hamlet and his father marked their places on the nation's history. To sleep, perchance to dream, ay, there's the rub.
During the Christmas holidays, when the rest of the students went home to be with their families, Karl and Astria stayed in Aarhus. They expected Mr. and Mrs. Brin to join them in the apartment paid for by the Brins, and weren't disappointed when her
