Cecilia always left coming to Tina's until noon was past because she did not want to find her daughter in bed. Had she done so she would not have said a word, would not have looked a word, would simply have sat on the bed and talked to Tina for ten minutes instead of the two of them sitting opposite each other in armchairs.
Tina had been up for hours
But if she came and found Tina up she could pretend to herself that Tina had been up for hours and was a normal person and a proper mother.
Cecilia always left coming to Tina's until noon was past because she did not want to find her daughter in bed. Had she done so she would not have said a word, would not have looked a word, would simply have sat on the bed and talked to Tina for ten minutes instead of the two of them sitting opposite each other in armchairs.</s>But if she came and found Tina up she could pretend to herself that Tina had been up for hours and was a normal person and a proper mother.</s>Tina had been up for hours