Place where Secrets are Kept

秘密が守られる場所

Generally speaking, this kitchen was a venue for a enormous number of unimaginable things that seemed to have had no connection with this place. This included card fortune-telling, washing in zinc basins, solving the most essential problems in whisper, washing clothes, making love secretly and hastily; here, people stopped following the conversation and would silently look at the snow falling outdoors or listening to alder twigs scratching the cold glass.