Fine. I've done that before. But that's it. I'd never really hurt anybody.' 'Uh-huh. Friday They tell us we leave tonight. I knew it would be soon--the training has been over for nearly a month now--but still it feels sudden, it feels like a shock. Why did I agree to do this? I am an old woman, too tired to take up a new life. I wish now that I'd said no when they asked me. I have put everything I can into my one suitcase--clothes, shoes, a good wind-up clock, some soap, an extra pair of glasses. Bring no books, they said, and no photographs. We have been cheap christian louboutin uk told to say nothing, ever again, about the world we come from. But I am going to take this notebook anyhow. I am determined to write down what happens. Someday, someone may need to know. ' 'She used to be a girl friend of Boy's.' 'Surely not?' 'He always said so.' 'Have you considered,' I asked, 'how your guests are going to eat this caviar?' 'I have.
It's insoluble. But there's all this' - she revealed some trays of glassy titbits 'and anyway, people always find ways of eating things at parties. D'you remember we once ate potted shrimps with a paper knife?' 'Did we?' 'Darling' it was the night you popped the question.' 'As I remember, you popped.' 'Well, the night we got engaged. But you haven't said how you like the, arrangements.' The arrangements, apart from the swan and the flowers, consisted of a steward already inextricably trapped in the corner behind an improvised bar, and another steward, tray in hand, in comparative freedom. 'A cinema actor's dream,' I said. 'Cinema actors,' said my wife; 'that's what I want to talk about.' She came with me to my dressing-room and talked while I changed.
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