A Closed Eye (2012)
“With no one else had she ever done this. The gesture was symbolic, as if she were hiding more than her face, as if she were hiding herself, for she recognized in him the stranger of her dreams, and in the light of day did not wish to be found. The four of them were in a restaurant, a week before Tessa’s wedding. Freddie had grumbled at the idea of this dinner, which, he thought, had nothing to do with him, but Harriet had insisted on this being their treat, and the most graceful way to show the... recalcitrant Peckham that there were witnesses to his dubious entrance into Tessa’s life, and as if to warn him against a too precipitate departure from it. Theirs was apparently already a tired arrangement: he would stay with Tessa until the baby was born, and then they would separate. He had it in mind to be a free man within a couple of years.
‘I’ll never divorce him, never,’ Tessa had said to Harriet in the Ladies’ Room. ‘Anyway, he might as well be married to me as to anyone else.MoreLess
‘I’ll never divorce him, never,’ Tessa had said to Harriet in the Ladies’ Room. ‘Anyway, he might as well be married to me as to anyone else.MoreLess
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