The weekend went by all right. Lee was off from work Friday and we spent most of the next few days trying to impress his mother, driving her around town to the parks and monuments, going to the movies Saturday night and a play downtown on Sunday.
I don’t think she ever cracked a smile, just stared with those dark eyes and took it all in without saying a word. She wasn’t warming up to me any but I grew used to her silence. I spoke to her as one speaks to a sullen child, with the foreknowledge that she wouldn’t respond.
She was not outright mean or derogatory in any way. I just got the impression that it was easier for her to ignore me or say nothing at all than struggle to convert her thoughts into English.
Lee kept insisting she liked me. “You’d know it if she didn’t,” he said.
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