If Christa hadn’t been as shy and frightened, almost like a little rabbit, she would have noticed that Bert treated other women much more rudely, if he paid any attention to them. But she was what she was and almost naughty to call in her naivety. Perhaps that was one of the reasons that she designed toys, sweet, dreamy, primarily pink toys for little girls. Even her appearance matched this job because it was small, narrow, and petite. On the other hand, Bert could have been thought of as a road worker or at least a farmer, rather than a spiritual head man, as tall and broad-shouldered as he was. „A man needs the shoulders to give the girl the opportunity to cry on her or hide from the hardship of the world,“ he used to say matter-of-factly, deliberately leaving out who he meant by girl. Nevertheless, it was crystal clear for Anna, who had not missed Bert’s emotions for Christa, probably also because it was exactly the same that she, Anna, and Bert showed. It was less due to Christa’s carelessness not to notice this kind of emotional state, but more to her own regarding Detlev, who was tall but rather narrow and whose shoulders were neither suitable for tears nor for being away from the world. Nevertheless, Christa was in love with Detlev, to the point, as the saying goes. One indication was that she kept blushing and her eyes fell ashamed or ecstatic – you can’t say that exactly because the downpour prevented a direct view of it – if Detlev only looked at her.
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