It breaks her heart. Very well, she won't try for more pleasantries, she won't try to embrace him.
"But we have a fire until June," she protests. "One is needed all the year in this cellar."
She knows he has these eccentricities, he tries to live in a bare room on black bread and water, he chooses a little outbuilding in place of a nice house, but this is her house now. He lets her have her way in her own house. And it really is chilly here.
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It breaks her heart. Very well, she won't try for more pleasantries, she won't try to embrace him.
"But we have a fire until June," she protests. "One is needed all the year in this cellar."
She knows he has these eccentricities, he tries to live in a bare room on black bread and water, he chooses a little outbuilding in place of a nice house, but this is her house now. He lets her have her way in her own house. And it really is chilly here.