Malter

She heard that wail again when she confessed her dishonor to her father, and again when her father returned from his meeting with Klaus Malter.

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And it confused her to see how Klaus Malter, the young dentist with the shy eyes and red beard, who had set up his new practice half a block from the pay-library, looked at Ingrid.

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There it was safe, even if Jutta Malter would have to be persuaded not to charge up the stairs to confront Georg.

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Alexander seemed about to correct her once more, but instead he turned toward Klaus Malter and told him he already had several tenants signed up for the stores.

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Klaus Malter smiled as he situated her in his tilting metal-and-leather chair.

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Of all the unborn children in Burgdorf, the child of Jutta Malter was the one whose progress fascinated Trudi the most.

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“You … you were with Ingrid Baum and Klaus Malter.”

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Klaus Malter slid off the counter and crouched next to her.

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Matthias Berger arrived on the train for the funeral, and Klaus Malter asked if he could drive Trudi to the cemetery, his voice hushed as if he were afraid to wake her father.

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Jutta Malter glanced at her from the side, then at the professor, as if waiting for her to do something.

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