the last book I ever read (Eternal Summer: A Novel by Franziska Gänsler, excerpt three)

from Eternal Summer: A Novel by Franziska Gänsler (Imogen Taylor, Translator):

After supper I hung around in the dining room, hoping the woman would come out of her room again, as she sometimes did after putting Ilya to bed. I wanted to tell her about finding Ilya alone by the river. I waited a long time, but she didn’t come that evening. Once I thought I heard something, but when I looked out the terrace door, the garden was empty in the warm night. All was still, even the forest. The sky over the hotel was a gray pall. I looked for the moon but couldn’t find it.