Spring Snow
“His mother rushed up to his room to take his temperature. In the midst of this commotion, Iinuma appeared to say that Honda was on the phone. Kiyoaki had the greatest difficulty in persuading his mother not to take the call in his place, and when he had finally won his point and had gone downstairs to the phone, he was wrapped in a cashmere blanket, at his mother’s insistence.
“It’s all very simple: the story is that I did go to school today but came home early. No one here knows anything diffe...rent. My cold?” Made uneasy by the glass door at his back, he continued in a low, muffled voice. “Don’t worry about that. I’ll be at school tomorrow, and we can talk about it then. Don’t start telephoning just because I wasn’t at school—you do exaggerate!”
When Honda rang off, he was shaking with anger at Kiyoaki’s icy response to his expressions of concern, but there was more to it than his unfriendly tone or his rudeness. Honda had never once put Kiyoaki in the position of having to share a secret.MoreLess
“It’s all very simple: the story is that I did go to school today but came home early. No one here knows anything diffe...rent. My cold?” Made uneasy by the glass door at his back, he continued in a low, muffled voice. “Don’t worry about that. I’ll be at school tomorrow, and we can talk about it then. Don’t start telephoning just because I wasn’t at school—you do exaggerate!”
When Honda rang off, he was shaking with anger at Kiyoaki’s icy response to his expressions of concern, but there was more to it than his unfriendly tone or his rudeness. Honda had never once put Kiyoaki in the position of having to share a secret.MoreLess
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