... loneliness deep in her pores...

Lonely in the cell

Follow-up story Kalle en Pietje, part 47

solitude

Pietje feels loneliness deep in her pores. She's been locked up in this police cell for a few days and she's so bored. She feels abandoned by her new friends and desperately longs for an arm around her.

But she realizes she owes it all to herself. Then she shouldn't have gone into the criminal circuit. And to demand at this moment of God, whom she has been putting to the crown all these years, that He should save her from here... No, she cannot and cannot.

Therefore, the solitude by her soul. The rejection and inferiority, which she already knows so well, get free rein in her mind. In this chilly, otherwise empty cell, that is not so surprising. If only Kalle was here to cheer her up, she thinks.

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