:17:11
Well done, Mama.
:17:14
-Doesn't Lena have a wristwatch?
I'll give you mine.
:17:18
It was a gift from an admirer
:17:20
who said I was always late.
:17:24
Will Lena be having dinner with us?
-No, she's on a diet.
:17:29
She ate far too much
at the hospital.
:17:39
Why do I feel like
I have a temperature?
:17:42
Why do I want to cry?
:17:45
I'm to be put to shame,
that's the idea.
:17:50
Then a guilty conscience.
Always a guilty conscience!
:17:56
I was in such a hurry to get here.
What was I expecting?
:18:00
What was I longing
for so desperately?
:18:05
This extraordinary mother!
:18:09
You should have seen her
when I told her Lena was here.
:18:13
She actually managed
to produce a smile
:18:17
despite her surprise and alarm.
:18:20
And as we stood outside Lena's door:
an actress before her entrance,
:18:25
scared but in control.
The performance was superb.
:18:31
Why on earth did she come here?
:18:34
What did she expect of a meeting
after 7 years? What did she expect?
:18:38
-I wonder.
-And what did I expect?
Does one never stop hoping?
:18:44
-I don't think so.
-Always mother and daughter!
:18:48
No use starting to cry.
Damn it!
:18:53
There she sat, gazing
at me with her big eyes.
:18:59
I held her face
and felt the disease