The House Of The Sleeping Beauties - Plot & Excerpts
Inside the gate of the 'house of sleeping beauties', Eguchi noticed that the drizzle had become sleet. The usual woman closed and locked the gate behind him. He saw white dots in the light pointed at his feet. There was only a scattering of them. They were soft, and melted as they hit the flagstones. "Be careful." said the woman. "The stones are wet." holding an umbrella for him, she tried to take his hand. The forbidding warmth from the middle aged hand seemed about to come through his glove. "I'm all right." He shook her away. "I'm not so old yet that I need to be led by the hand." "They're slippery." The fallen maple leaves had been not swept away. Some were withered and faded, but they glowed in the rain. "Do you have them coming here half paralyzed? Do you have to lead them and hold them up?" "You're not to ask about the others." "But the winter must be dangerous for them. What would you do if one of them had a stroke or a heart attack?" "That would be the end of things." she said coldly.
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