My grandmother? What kind of woman was she?” “Oh, she was very reserved. She didn’t talk much. No one in the village ever gossiped about her. She wasn’t at all flirtatious, I remember that.” We stayed for a long time, talking about Yves and Vicente, about the love triangle they and Myriam had formed and its consequences. We talked about René Char, too, and how he’d spent the war in Céreste. Mireille spoke frankly, without going off on tangents.
