They book a weekend trip to northern Spain to recover. Arnold misses his plane to Oslo, and Ida can hear why in his voice. He denies it, but when their plane to Spain is delayed in Copenhagen due to fog and they are sitting in the airport, drinking, her fears are confirmed and she thinks: he is never going to change. If he can do that after they have been to war together. If he can do that now.

Did he not see their relationship the way she saw it, if he was willing to risk it all to fuck a student? Or, more likely, he thought about it the way she thought about it and moreover he was so sure of it, its rare quality, so confident was he that he didn’t think it could ever be at risk, that it might come crashing down.