Citation de missmolko1
Prelude
Kopavogur, 1988
The babysitter was late.
The couple hardly went out in the evening, so they had been careful to check her availability well in advance. She had babysat for them a few times before and lived in the next street, but apart from that they didn’t know much about her. Or her family either, though they knew her mother to speak to when they ran into her in the neighbourhood. Their seven-year-old daughter looked up to the girl, who was twenty-one and seemed very grown up and glamorous to her. She was always talking about what fun she was, what pretty clothes she wore, what exciting bedtime stories she told, and so on. Their daughter’s eagerness to have her round to babysit made the couple feel less guilty about accepting the invitation; they felt reassured that their little girl would not only be in good hands but would enjoy herself, too.
Kopavogur, 1988
The babysitter was late.
The couple hardly went out in the evening, so they had been careful to check her availability well in advance. She had babysat for them a few times before and lived in the next street, but apart from that they didn’t know much about her. Or her family either, though they knew her mother to speak to when they ran into her in the neighbourhood. Their seven-year-old daughter looked up to the girl, who was twenty-one and seemed very grown up and glamorous to her. She was always talking about what fun she was, what pretty clothes she wore, what exciting bedtime stories she told, and so on. Their daughter’s eagerness to have her round to babysit made the couple feel less guilty about accepting the invitation; they felt reassured that their little girl would not only be in good hands but would enjoy herself, too.
