Mazel Tov by J. S. Margot

Author:J. S. Margot [Margot, J. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 2020-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Thirty-Five

For two months, I didn’t go to the Schneiders’.

Then one evening, Mr Schneider appeared on our doorstep, under the window with the “No to the Gulf War!” poster.

Nima opened the door. “She isn’t at home just now, she’s still in the library. Would you like to come in?”

I was in my last year at the Institute of Interpreting and Translation Studies. Sitting tests. Resitting tests.

Nima took Mr Schneider’s long coat and hat. He made fresh mint tea and spread out bowls of pistachios, almonds, figs, fresh fruit and nougat from Isfahan. Mr Schneider sampled it all, even the sickly-sweet, non-kosher nougat.

I never got to hear what they talked about. “All kinds of things,” was the answer I got from both Nima and Mr Schneider when I asked.

“He’s okay,” my boyfriend said. “That father’s okay.” He also said he’d asked Mr Schneider what he’d done with the piece of paper on which I’d written down his name after my job interview. “I stuck it in the shredder,” he’d answered. Nima said he found that hard to believe. Mr Schneider merely smiled and told a few jokes.

Mr Schneider left a letter for me, from Elzira.

It was the loveliest, most honest letter I’d ever received in my life, and thanks to three years of boarding school I had quite a pile of correspondence. After that two-month break, I went back to work for the Schneiders.

I’d missed them much more than I wanted to admit.

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