IT SEEMED TO HIM...

"It seemed to him that she did not want to admit him into her sorrow, and he, being a mere mechanic, did not have the words to ask her to let him in on it. That was the problem, he felt: when words were handed out to the various callings by which people lived, all the words were taken by politicians and lawyers and the clever accountants, and not many were left for people like him - the mechanics and the farmers."



(Alexander McCall Smith - 'The House of Unexpected Sisters')