This had been happening a lot lately, suddenly the weeks were flying by. Today she glanced at the clock on the wall and was amazed to see that it was already five past three. Wondering where the day had gone she had just begun to register the full disaster of her desk when she heard the library doors swing open. She looked through her office window and her heart almost stopped. The Book Deliverer was wheeling his trolley across the carpet towards her office. He hadn’t crossed her mind in ages, although it could only have been a month. Incredible, how much her life had moved on in that time. For what felt like an eternity everything had been the same and she had been resigned to it never changing. Now she inhabited a new universe. The Book Deliverer was from the faded old world of before, and yet here he came, striding towards her as he always had, smiling a shy greeting and stopping courteously in the doorway with his clipboard and tethered pen ready. His aftershave arrived a second later.
