with which he roughly pushes the cat out of the car.
Then he gets the flowers out of the trunk, locks the Saab with his key, makes a circuit around it, and checks each of the doors.
Together they climb the frozen graveled slope leading up to the church turn-off and force their way through the snow, before they stop by Sonja.
Ove brushes some snow off the gravestone with the back of his hand and gives the flowers a little shake.
“I’ve brought some flowers with me,” he mumbles. “Pink. Which you like.”
“They say they die in the frost but they only tell you that to trick you into buying the more expensive ones.”
The cat sinks down on its behind in the snow. Ove gives it a sullen look, then refocuses on the gravestone.
“Right, right... This is the Cat Annoyance. It’s living with us now. Almost froze to death outside our house.”
The cat gives Ove an offended look. Ove clears his throat. “He looked like that when he came,” he clarifies, a sudden defensive note in his voice.
Then, with a nod at the cat and the gravestone: “So it wasn’t me who broke him. He was already broken,” he adds to Sonja.
Both the gravestone and the cat wait in silence beside him.
Ove stares at his shoes for a moment. Grunts. Sinks onto his knees in the snow and brushes a bit more snow off the stone.
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