Alondra has already arrived at their town's terminal. She'd just gotten off the bus. And she told Hebrew that she would pick her up without telling Mathilde. So when she got off the bus and saw him waving in the distance, she summoned him to assist the conductor in loading her belongings.

"Didn't you come to our house? Mathilde didn't know you were going to pick me up today?" Alondra asked.

"I didn't say that. She always teased me that we were going to the city, but your father didn't agree because he said you were working and not to bother you. You'd think that after a year you just...