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Chapter 13

When he opened the door, the first thing that struck him, seeing her standing in front of him, was her smile. It wasn’t as enigmatic as – according to the experts – Gioconda’s. On the contrary in fact. For – assisted by her body assuming the appropriate stance (something akin to an askew Latin question mark) – she might, much like Da Vinci, have condensed in it a whole list of messages, demands and projects ex-cept that they were obvious to see, even to far-sighted Babis, without his glasses on. And it made clear to him, first and foremost, that she was in no mood, as though it weren’t plain as day already, to be interro-gated. If pressured, she would exercise her right to remain silent. And also, OK, she might have, wrongly of course, kicked him to the curb for someone else who was promising her the moon, the difference be-ing that had he done the same, she would have black-listed him. OK, maybe now she was coming back to him with her tail between her legs, OK, she realised that, because of the precedent created and the res judi-cata force attached to it, it would be a piece of cake for him to just call the whole thing off on the first sign of

- Isn’t it you who says that?

- If it is, it’s because that’s what they say.

- You’ve not said who she is.

- Even better. Creates a bit of suspense.

+ You could plainly see here how effective for the learning and understanding of a foreign language, its grammar and syntax, apart from a total immer-sion in it, the pillow method was.

“like a killer returning to the scene of the crime” probably, as it is a crime to dump someone out of the blue.

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trouble. OK, he could have, had he been seeing some-one else, closed the door right in her face. OK, maybe, no matter how much she had missed making love to him, he was vastly inferior to the other guy in sex. OK, maybe she had missed him, but she’d be stupid to confess that to him because it