Every time she flashed me that smile, I’d want to take her in my arms and kiss her. Every time she smiled at me like that, I’d want to get down on...one knee, ask her to marry me, and promise her that I’d forsake all others and be true to her. Every time she smiled, I’d want to make love to her. That smile confessed that she knew things that I didn’t know but should have known. That smile was all the evidence I needed to know that she loved me. Later in life, her soft smile would make me do. I asked our local office for help in this, and an interpreter was arranged, who turned out to be Maria. She had been an interpreter in Brussels, but had moved to Spain to live in a warmer climate. After the business was done, we all went out to lunch which is Spain tends to start late and finish even later. The wine flowed freely, though I tried to keep a clear head, as after all I knew that business is never finished in reality. The older of the senior managers sat next to Maria, with me on. Nandhini ennai iravil en veetirku vaa endru sollinaal, iravil un amma matrum thangai iruka matala endru keten? Atharku avargal iruvarum hallil paduthu uranguvaargal endru sollinaal pinbu andru iravu aval vetirku selalam endru mudivu seithen. Andru iravu sariyaaga 11 maniku sendren, antha nerathil thaan aval vara solli irunthaal.Enaku bayamaaga irunthathu aanalum ( risk eduthaal thaan rusk) endru kilambinen. Kathavu thiranthu thaan irunthathu, athil kai vaithu thaliya udan thanaga. “As it happens, I wrote that book.”“I know,” he said, flashing me a winning smile. “Your photo is on the jacket. I read that far while I was standing at the shelf. I took the book from the shelf because of the title, but I kept it for reading because of your photo on the jacket, Mr. Winthrop.”So, now he knew my name. He’d gotten that off the book too. Somehow that brought him closer to me.“You came in because of the snow?” I asked. “Is it snowing harder out there?”“Yes, the snow has picked up,”.