The daughter of my Chicago acquaintance, Marina, named Jeanne, had dreamed of two things since her childhood: to become a stewardess and to live in France, and both dreams were fulfilled. She learned French, graduated from stewardess school and met an engineer from Toulouse at a height of 10 thousand meters.

Her husband, inspired by her example, decided to realize her childhood dream of heaven. He flew on the weekend in the air club, then passed the civil pilot exam for 40 years. Now Air France pilot, all the way, but at first at this age and without experience he was not taken anywhere. There was only a second pilot’s seat in a business jet in Vilnius. So they found themselves in Lithuania for several years, without acquaintances and knowledge of Lithuanian. With the locals communicated in English, sometimes went to the course of Jeannine Russian. They removed the house on the huthor and in parallel with the accumulation of flight hours took up the continuation of the family. Yes, when the younger was to be born, the eldest daughter was barely a year old. There were no babysitters, they did it themselves. Next, I tell from the face of Marina, that is, Jeanne’s mother.

“Tonight, I haven’t gone from work yet, Jean calls:
Mom, I think I have a fight!

According to the schedule before the birth of a week, the son-in-law flew on the last flight before the holiday, the son-in-law arrived in the morning. My beauty to his return cleaned the house, cooked the borscht (he, for the sake of French, the borscht respects) and apparently overworked and provoked childbirth. I say to call the doctor urgently, they had a contract with a private clinic. She is:
Where am I, little day? She just fell asleep. I will endure until morning.
“No,” I said, “family, it doesn’t work that way. It is not shameful to give birth. Find someone to sit with her. Friends and neighbors.
I know few neighbors, they are all behind the fence. And there are no friends, and who are probably sleeping, we have half a night. Okay, I will try it.

and turned off. I sit like on needles. Half an hour later he calls again:
The doctor refused to come. Maybe he’s lazy, or maybe he doesn’t really get it. I am now in a taxi, I am going to the state hospital. It’s faster than an ambulance. Polynika was there alone, I didn’t call anyone. Mom, please go into the monitor and watch her until Jack comes. Relax when you wake up.

They have a child monitor. On the wall in the children's room camera, through it you can monitor the child from the smartphone and talk. When I was with them, Jeanne put a program on my phone and taught me how to use it. I say :
What if she got out of bed and died? What will I do with my Chicago?
I couldn’t get out, I tied her to my leg.
Well, she’ll get sick, she’ll get sick with that rope. Jeanne, why are you silent? by Jeanne!

There’s only stones in the cable. Probably the fighting started again. Then I hear a taxi driver say in Russian:
Wait for five minutes, we’re here. Just don’t give birth in the car, please, I don’t know how to give birth.

And the silence. The phone turned off. I went into the monitor. My granddaughter is asleep, sleeping in two holes, and I am uncomfortable. And then, in 20 minutes, I see a man with a beard in the room. I whispered to him (so that the granddaughter would not wake up):
Who are you? I will call the police now!
And I wonder: how will I call the Lithuanian police? In what language and by what number? Did he understand me at all?

The man trembled and sat by surprise. He turned his head, found the source of the sound and said to the camera, also whispering:
I am Nicholas. That is Nicholas. Do you have to be Jeanne’s mother?

No problem, I guess, who’s in the Jeannoths. Old for her, rather my age. You can’t see much on the monitor. I tell him:
Please go away sooner. Jeanne is not home, and her husband will soon come back.

He says:
You did not understand so. I’m the driver, I’ve now taken Jean to the nursery. She forgot her bag in the car. I first just wanted to return the bag, and then I thought... I heard your conversation with her, I realized that the little girl was left alone without supervision. So I decided to follow her, it wasn’t difficult for me.
How did you get into the house?
The keys in the bag.
How did you know the address?
I took it from that address. I’m an honest man, don’t think.
It is good that you are an honest person. Someone else in your place would catch what is more expensive and run away from all the legs.
I would not have escaped far. Jeanne had the number of my car left, she called a taxi through the aggregator.
Sit in a chair next to the wall. Thanks to you.

15 minutes of silence. Suddenly he stumbled:
Excuse me, what is your name?
and Marina.
Can I go and get a book to read? The phone is down and I feel like I’m going to sleep. I’ve been driving since morning.
“Please, but I fear they don’t have books in Russian or Lithuanian. Only English and French. So that you don’t fall asleep, let’s talk.

And we began to talk. I told him about Jean and all her fate. A little about myself. He told about himself. An interesting man appeared. Engineer, finished the university in Leningrad. My wife was Lithuanian, so they did not leave. Now only one remains in Vilnius: his son is a musician, playing in a symphony orchestra somewhere in Europe. 2 hours talked. Here I get an SMS from Jeanne: “3200/51”. She gave birth, I mean. I told Nicholas to go to the kitchen, find some alcohol and drink for the newborn.

He came with a drink and used to chew with me. Specifically, with a monitor camera. Although I didn’t have any alcohol, I didn’t leave work at home, wifi to the hell. We woke up and we woke up the little girl. She shrugged. I see, Nicholas takes her out of the bed, changed her diapers, gave her water from a bottle. It was as if she had worked as a babysitter all her life. Polynka our girl was careful, and then she saw little strangers, she was afraid of them. But I pulled to him. He sat down on the chair, put her on herself, and she fell asleep again. I also fell asleep, I finally got calm, my daughter is okay and my granddaughter is in safe hands.

I woke up with a scream from the phone:
Marina and Marina! Finally explain it to him!
I look into the monitor, and there the son-in-law chases Nicholas throughout the room, the one turns away from him, the granddaughter is crying in the bed. Well, obviously, the son-in-law came home, and at the entrance of a taxi, the door, in the chair sleeps a stranger with his daughter in his arms. God knows what he thought. They could not explain themselves, they could only speak Lithuanian, they could not speak Russian at all, Nikolai's English is not better.

I explained everything to Jacques from the monitor. He calmed down, sneaky sneaky, wanted to give Nicholas money. He did not take it, stumbled and left. But he did not disappear at all, the daughter found him by the number of the car and persuaded him to come to see the baptist. Then she started asking to sit with the children, since Polynka is not afraid of him. So fortunately, my grandchildren both grandparents died, and suddenly such a grandfather appeared. And he is well, he also has no grandchildren, his son is all on tour, his family has not gotten.

When I came to visit the children in Lithuania, he invited me for a date. He was good in this matter too. I’t marry him, that’s too much. But they met every time I came, until the children left for France.”