Ove concludes that he’s won the battle, nods with satisfaction, puts the Saab into gear, and drives onto the main road.
Only then does the cat slowly and deliberately drag its claws in a long tear across the newsprint, and then put both its front paws through the rip.
While at the same time giving Ove a highly challenging look, as if to ask: “And what are you going to do about it?”
Ove slams on the brakes of the Saab so that the cat, shocked, is thrown forward and bangs its nose against the dashboard.
“THAT’s what I have to say about it!” Ove’s triumphant expression seems to say.
After that, the cat refuses to look at Ove for the rest of the journey
and just sits hunched up in a corner of the seat, rubbing its nose with one of its paws in a very offended way.
But while Ove is inside the florist’s, it licks long wet streaks across Ove’s steering wheel, safety belt, and the inside of Ove’s car door.
When Ove comes back with the flowers and discovers that his whole car is full of cat saliva,
he waves his forefinger in a threatening manner, as if it were a scimitar.
And then the cat bites his scimitar. Ove refuses to speak to him for the rest of the journey.
When they get to the churchyard, Ove plays it safe and scrunches up the remains of the newspaper into a ball,
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