Keys in hand, I went to the door. I thought she only wanted to return home earlier. I was wrong. There was more. She arrived with a firm step, holding her bag in hand.
"You know Alma, I do not like when someone lies to me!"
She closed the drawer of the checkout, without doing the accounts, and turned the key. At the same time, the phone rang and she threw herself on it, responding: "Vera?" Her face changed. "No, Madame Simone. Not tonight. I'm sorry. An emergency, I must go. Yes. Goodbye."
I froze. I tried to understand. The tension in her voice had increased before the end of the discussion. She began to lose all patience.
"Alma! Jeanne said that during the movie tonight, Vera received a phone call. She left the audience and never returned. What do you know of all this?"