Hän tiesi, että Tommi tuli joka ilta, piti häntä sylissään ja puhui. Krisse kuuli sumun läpi Tommin juttelevan hänelle tavallisista asioista. Kuinka talon rakentaminen eteni. Miten kauniilta järvi näytti, kun jäät olivat suurimmalta osin lähteneet. Ketkä kaikki olivat kysyneet hänen vointiaan. Kaikki, mistä Tommi puhui, tuntui vieraalta, kuin jossain toisessa maailmassa tapahtuneelta. Jossain vaiheessa miehen ääni sai silti Krissen nukahtamaan ja hän arveli, että juuri se oli Tommin tarkoitus.
She knew that Tommi came every evening, held her in his arms and talked. Krisse heard through the fog Tommi talking to her about ordinary things. How the construction of the house was going. How beautiful the lake looked when the ice had partly gone from the bigger one. Who all had asked about how he was feeling. Everything that Tommi was talking about felt strange as if they had happened in another world. At some point, the man's voice, however, made Krisse fall asleep, and she guessed that it was just Tommi's intention.
* syli : arms (in reference to embracing or holding in both one's arms)
* jutella : to chat, talk
* edetä : (intransitive) to advance, proceed, progress, make progress, advance
* osin : partly
* vointi : condition, feel, shape (one's state of health or the way one feels about it)
* vieras : unfamiliar, unknown, foreign
* vaihe : phase, stage, step, point
* nukahtaa : to fall asleep
* tarkoitus : end, purpose, cause, intention, intent, goal