Summary

In Chapter 18, Martti Winter is a wealthy man from book sales and an inheritance when his mother died. He is now 42-years-old and spends most of his time eating pastries in his three-story house. Martti and Ingrid had once been lovers and he longs to talk to her but can't revert to their old habit of playing The Game so he avoids her at all costs now. Martti lives behind locked doors now but once Ingrid sneaked into his house and surprised him in the middle of the night. To prevent this from happening again, he tightly sealed his brick garden wall and installed barbed wire and broken glass on top of the garden wall. Martti simply wants to keep his own thoughts to himself. However, he did relent and give Ingrid a key when she nursed him through a bad...