Memoir From Antproof Case
“His wife was a career woman who would brook no nonsense. When she met me at the door of their modest row house she was turned out like a Wall Street lawyer—with suit, scarf, and brooch, all of the highest quality. I assumed that she had just come from Manhattan, with a Florentine-leather briefcase full of legal documents. I was wrong, but I did not discover this until later.
"What can I do for you?" she asked. She was severe in a way that her husband never would be. He had been born to fight a ...mythical battle that was denied to him, and he was saving his strength and his power for a time that might never come, while she seemed to have been suited to make efforts in a lesser world that failed to interest him.
"I'm looking for Smedjebakken," I said.
Her expression changed immediately. When she heard her husband's real name she assumed that I was someone from his past, who might, perhaps, excite his Viking sensibilities.
"He's in the back," she said, cooling to me.MoreLess
"What can I do for you?" she asked. She was severe in a way that her husband never would be. He had been born to fight a ...mythical battle that was denied to him, and he was saving his strength and his power for a time that might never come, while she seemed to have been suited to make efforts in a lesser world that failed to interest him.
"I'm looking for Smedjebakken," I said.
Her expression changed immediately. When she heard her husband's real name she assumed that I was someone from his past, who might, perhaps, excite his Viking sensibilities.
"He's in the back," she said, cooling to me.MoreLess
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