Lotte’s answer was vague: she told him that his uncle was ten years older than she was, more or less, and that the way he made a living wasn’t exactly a model for young people, more or less, and that it had been a long time since the family had news of him, because he had disappeared from the face of the earth, more or less. Later she told Klaus that when she was little she thought her brother was a giant, but that this was the sort of thing little girls often imagined.
