‘He’s getting warmer,’ she exclaims, turning to Ove in triumph. Ove nods. He was about to say something sarcastic to her. Now he finds, uneasily, that he’s relieved at the news. He distracts himself from this emotion by assiduously inspecting the TV remote control. Not that he’s concerned about the cat. It’s just that Sonja would have been happy. Nothing more than that.
