The Importance of a Foreigner's Pronunciation

He was aware that her English was poor but because he was a foreigner her pronunciation did not offend him nor categorise her. He corrected her grammatical mistakes but missed the less obvious ones because of his own sometimes unusual English usage. She continued to use the singular it for the plural they. While she sat at the typewriter she thought how one day she would type notes for him as well as making coffee the way he liked it and taking him inside her body without saying anything. On a summer night near Christmas he had already bought and hidden a slightly showy but good watch he thought she would like. There was a knocking at the door that brought her out of the bathroom and him to his