When he peers in her direction and she looks ready to throw the cat at him, he looks down again and groans disconsolately.
All I want is to die, he thinks and presses his toes into one of the floorboards. It flexes slightly.
Ove looks up at Jimmy. Looks at the cat. Surveys the wet floor. Shakes his head at Parvaneh.
“We’ll have to take my car then,” he mutters. He takes his jacket from the hook and opens the front door.
After a few seconds he sticks his head back into the hall. Glares at Parvaneh.
“But I’m not bringing the car to the house because it’s prohibit—”
She interrupts him with some words in Farsi which Ove can’t understand. Nonetheless he finds them unnecessarily dramatic.
She wraps the cat more tightly in the blanket and walks past him into the snow.
“Rules are rules, you know,” says Ove truculently as she heads off to the parking area, but she doesn’t answer.
Ove turns around and points at Jimmy. “And you put on a sweater. Or you’re not going anywhere in the Saab, let’s be clear about that.”
Parvaneh pays for the parking at the hospital. Ove doesn’t make a fuss about it.
A MAN WHO WAS OVE AND A CAT CALLED ERNEST
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