![]() ![]() He has no idea she has the slightest twinge of misgivings. It’s endearing, but it is also alienating. She’s used to her decent husband’s cautious and practical nature. He explained to her that he was just uneasy that the train should start to move. Once Peter had brought her suitcase on board the train he seemed eager to get himself out of the way. Peter is one of those slightly nervous types who will avoid intimacy if it also means avoiding a potential, spontaneous problem, even minor ones: We find out, through simply observations Munro gives us, that this is a happy family, but not all is perfect. Greta and her young daughter Katy are on the train, heading to Toronto for the summer, looking out to husband and father Peter as he waves and smiles. ![]() The story, about a woman’s desire to explore and the maternal guilt she suffers (and how, in the past and still today, those two things are difficult to reconcile), begins on a Vancouver train platform.
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