Standing

His family have come to ask him a question he has been avoiding for twohundred years.Marit Onn is four inches shorter than her brother and has none of hispatience. She arrives on a Tuesday with news: Ollie is being released. Heasked in the autumn. It took him twenty years to ask.Nobody says the obvious thing to Halvard. Nobody has said it since 1890.Nora has been careful not to ask about the lette...