Like coltish creatures, wanting to play, to frolic, but restrained by self-consciousness, by a kind of delicacy – perhaps even by the frightening depth of their mutual longing. He’d been waiting for her all the day, watching the deserted garden world through the cracks in ...
Let the general explain what this is all about. The general seemed to have the same idea. They sat in silence in the back seat, stared straight ahead at the busy streets, at the driver’s shaven neck, the black beret clamped on his small round head. The wire arms of his spectacles seemed to disapp...