The meaning of a long sentence ,looking forward to your help!
contect: My eyes bore into his, what I find inside them encourages me to continue – “Look at me, do you honestly believe I killed her? ”
And once again his green gaze locks behind the thicket of eyelashes.“I honestly don’t know,” he finally says.
When I bring him coffee, he’s already sitting leisurely on the couch, one leg folded underneath his youthful body, full of bendable joints. I hand him the mug, and our fingers brush against each other.
“Ronit said Dina was scared of you, afraid you cursed her or something.” Good.
“Then you can tell her for me to stop talking nonsense.”
“She talked about it very seriously. Said that in college they called you the witch.”
“Baloney,” I reply, but suddenly, the familiar song arises from the street, “Little witch, little witch fell down a ditch!” The small voices sound more menacing than usual, and despite my overwhelming urge to slam the window shut, I obviously won’t do that in front of the suspicious green gaze.
“Are they singing about you?” he asks, feigning amusement, but it only makes him sound more serious.
“Of course not! What are you, crazy?”
“If that was your reputation in college, maybe you carried it into adulthood.”
“Now you listen to me, it was a private joke between me and my friends, nothing serious, I just had… good instincts, intuition, that’s all. Like how I knew the moment I saw you that you used to be religious.”
“You don’t need intuition for that, most religious people would have caught onto it within seconds.” “Or how I knew you were into more mature women.”
He considers me carefully. “You don’t have to besome gifted psychic for that either.”
True, certainly not with all those looks and innuendoes of yours, which at present seem to have faded without leaving a trace. But I’m not worried, cute ex-Orthodox boys like you are invariably capricious, playing hot and cold with you, expecting you to be the supportive adult,until it blows up in both your faces, because you yourself happen to prefer being the little girl.
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He is a cop,26 years old. I am a suspect,a 38 years old woman, my exboyfriend also is 26 years old.
so what does the last sentence "True, certainly not with all those looks and innuendoes of yours, which at present seem to have .........because you yourself happen to prefer being the little girl."meaning?
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