No, Grandmother says firmly, He is there to protect him.

Sometimes she groans that she is bored.

There are no iPads here, but her boredom blows away as it did, pre-iPad soon enough.

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Norwegian actor Danielsen Lie is presumably putting a kind of twang on his normal speaking voice.

From Grandmothers point of view, what is that but flagrant rudeness, deserving to be defied?

This is socializing!, she tells the confused Sophia, not especiallysotto voce.

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You have to learn how to do it.

Frightened off by the stench of grief, says the father morosely.

says Grandmother, with the full force of Closes status as a grande dame.

Im trying, he mumbles.

she replies, blunt as ever.

I wont be here forever!

Very much like this film, in fact.