Pourquoi me réveiller
When Matthew returned to his hotel after yet another fruitless search for the place where his mother had been killed he found a telegram from Anna waiting for him.
The telegram read: SHES BACK STOP SHE SAYS FOR GOOD STOP COME HOME STOP
After his dinner Matthew twisted his glass of armagnac back and forth in his fingers as he read the telegram over and over again.
What does 'for good' really mean? Forever or three weeks Tuesday? 'She says, she says', she says a lot of things; what will she do? There's a lot of ruin in a man's heart but still ... this will be three times. Third time lucky. But third man on a match unlucky.
He could feel his resolve hardening, he would not...he heard a laugh. A low throaty laugh. A woman's laugh. He looked at the table up and to his right. There was a couple, an older couple, as old as his parents would have been if ... the man raised the woman's hand and kissed it, the woman laughed again and they leaned their heads together.
Matthew finished his drink and stood up.