The whole story is described by dialogue between them. I think their relationship is quite cold and they can’t tell anything important to each other:(“Je pořádné vedro,“řekl muž.“dejme si pivo.“ PG.240)
They are talking only about things, that they see or about drinks:(“Chtěla jsem zkusit tohle nové pití. Neděláme přece nic jiného-koukáme se na věci a zkoušíme nové pití.“PG.241)
The whole story they are talking about unclear, mysterious operation, I think it’s interruption, because the man told:(“Já chci milovat jenom tebe, nic jiného.“PG.243)
I think the woman really doesn’t want to go to that abortion, but she knows, that the man believes that is the best choice:(“Je to jediná věc, která nás trápí. Jediná věc,pro kterou nejsme šťastni.“PG.242)
Woman is very afraid of that operation:(“Pak si to dám udělat, Na sebe kašlu.“PG.242)
Almost every sentence could express emotions, but it’s easy to know, there is no emotions:(“Já tě mám rád I teď.Víš,že tě mám rád.“PG.242)

Old Man At The Bridge

This story tooks place also in Spain during WW2. One very sunny day a soldier went to check the situation on the other side of the bridge. When he went there he met an old man sitting and resting near the bridge. He started talking with him and the old man told him that he had to leave the animals, which he was care for. The strange is, that the old man wasn’t afraid of his own life, but of those animals:(“Všeho všudy to byly jenom tři zvířata.““…Kvuli těm dělum jsem je musel opustit.““Jejich kapitán mi poručil abych kvuli nim šel pryč.“PG.71)
The soldier tried to help him, because he told him where to retreat for advancing army:(“Tohle není dobré místo k zastavení,“řekl jsem.“Jestli dokážete dojít nahoru po silnici až tam,kde odbočuje na Tortosu,najdete tam nákladní auta.“PG.71)
It’s hard to say if that old man was insane or just too old, but I think it’s not important. In my opinion the main idea is how war destroys human’s life. The old man’s whole life was his animals, he loved them, but war took them. That’s why there wasn’t any happiness left in his life:(“…Tahle okolnost a dále to, že se kočky dovedou o sebe postarat, bylo veškeré štěstí, které toho starce jěšte čekalo…”PG.72)

The End of Something

I suppose this is the best story I have ever read. So much emotions are expressed on so little space. I think H. compares two perfect and function things, witch suddenly ended-rich sawmill and love.