This is the end. He is twenty-nine. He was sent to this secluded town to teach French. He'll teach here, retire here, die here. Like everyone else.
Communism is equality.
So he goes and asks around town, and gets some answers from people on the run. Yes, she has always been like that, no, she's not mad with grief, she's just stubborn and proud, like the lot of them, they always come up with some new idea in that house, they're just looking for trouble, fighting wars and everything. She's got an attitude-and gets away with it. There's no hospital here. There's no doctor here.