Therefore when I received my wake-up call at seven-thirty I felt as heavy—both physically and mentally—as I had felt lithe and weightless just eight hours previously. But the bathwater into which I lowered myself was practically stone-cold (on purpose) and, even though adhering to the regulatory ...
When I’d left London, August had still seemed a long way off and I’d hoped that after several months of our being apart it would probably be very pleasant to have her spend three days with me and let me show her Bristol. For after all, to begin with, we had got on rather well. But when her letter...
“Oh!” said Dawn, reading it. “Oh! All the good things are coming at once.” “What is it?” In spite of his severely interrupted night, Josh had got up at more or less his normal time. He was currently mashing the tea. “She’ll be here for lunch tomorrow. She says she’s sorry that it’s such short not...
said Roger, “I suppose I’d better shift.” He had to catch a bus to the railway station. “Otherwise Dad will be back and I could just as well have gone with him and Polly.” He’d meant to get it over with quickly, this chore of seeing to his ticket, and then return in time to do some studying befor...
Yet I could see why at times she’d want to get away from it. I was sure there were advantages to having the upper storey but it was the lower floor which—although in all likelihood equally cramped—had the use of a garden; or, rather, of a strip of concreted back yard, for the house was a mid-terr...
I said I was his partner—that way they let me sit beside his bed and keep a vigil over him and make a deal with God. Save him—please—and if you do … It was absurd, I still scarcely knew the man and yet suddenly I felt I knew him well and only wanted to be allowed to get to know him better. I shou...
No, not quite. And is it really true I’m over you? But all the same. I’m certainly not going to mourn you, not any longer. We’ll make out, Thomas and I. And in a way it’ll be a comfort just to know that somewhere over there you’re still around, it isn’t quite as though you’re dead. (One day, even...
She could have taken in a lodger, couldn’t she? It was the biggest mistake of her life and they were fools who had counselled her. Sell up, find yourself a room, purchase an annuity! How could she ever have let herself be influenced? Yet, of course, she hadn’t. She had chosen to forget that. She ...