The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson

Author:Tove Jansson [Jansson, Tove]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781590173299
Amazon: 1590173295
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Published: 2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

“SYLVIA?” ANNA SHOUTED. “Is that you? I’ve tried to reach you again and again but you’re always out… Is this a bad time? Do you have guests?”

“It’s just my ladies,” Sylvia said. “You know, it’s Wednesday today.”

“What Wednesday..?”

“The Culture Society,” said Sylvia, over-articulating.

“Of course. Naturally… Can I call back later?”

“Call whenever you like; it’s always nice to hear from you.”

“Sylvia, could you come out here? I really mean it, could you come and visit..?”

“Of course I can,” said Sylvia’s voice. “It just never seems to happen. But sometime we really ought to get together and talk about old times. We’ll see. Let’s talk again, all right?”

Anna stood by the telephone for a long time and stared at the snowdrift through the window without seeing it. A great sadness gripped her. It can be sad having a friend you’ve admired too much and seen too rarely and told too many things that you should have kept to yourself. It was only to Sylvia that Anna had talked about her work – without reservation, boasts and cruel disappointments all jumbled together, everything. And now all of it was there with Sylvia, unloaded on her over the years in a dense clot of rash confidences.

I shouldn’t have called, Anna thought. But she’s the only one who knows me.

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