:07:02
Enjoyable...
:07:04
For all ages...
:07:07
Maupassant, perhaps.
Have you read him?
:07:10
"The Hand".
:07:13
"I'm won over."
:07:15
"Enough not to wonder to whom
I will read these stories this evening. "
:07:30
"The idiots put my ad
in "Work from home" section. "
:07:33
"Home. Of course.
But other people's. Not mine. "
:07:36
"A first letter has reached the agency.
It's from a woman. "
:07:41
"She's not what I expected.
Serves me right. "
:07:44
"A reader shouldn't
pre-judge their clients. "
:07:47
"She tells me her son Eric
is disabled after a road accident. "
:07:52
- "They don't yet know...
...if he'll get better.
:07:55
In any case, it will take time.
:07:57
I do what I can but I'm his mother,
so I can't help fussing.
:08:02
My husband has his work,
his amusements.
:08:07
Eric isn't lonely,
he has lots of friends.
:08:10
But when I saw your ad, I thought...
:08:16
Well, I thought that a person...
:08:20
You thought that having
a different person read to him
:08:23
might entertain him.
:08:26
You were right.
:08:28
- Eric loves novels. Do you?
- I do. Do you?
:08:32
Yes, life here is so peaceful...
:08:35
"Yet peacefully.
Charlemagne and his knights"
:08:37
"Left the mountain. Forgetting fights"
:08:40
That's grandfather.
:08:45
He adores poetry.
:08:48
- Your fee?
- "Irredeemable idiot. I'd forgotten."
:08:51
- "If I tell her..."
- I'm working on them.
:08:55
"Professionalism pays. I assure her
that we will reach an agreement. "