A Tree On Fire
“She stood aside so that he could set his suitcase in the hall. ‘The bad penny turned up again.’ ‘How are you, love?’ he said, kissing her.
‘I’m all right. What the bleddy-hell was you doing all this time? How are you?
‘Going around Algeria. I’m fine, fit enough. Won’t you make me some tea?’ She’d altered little in thirty months, a few lines by the side of her hazel eyes, oval face paler – though everyone seemed pale in this country.
‘You’ve got a cheek,’ she cried, ‘leaving me all this time and... then walking back in here as large as life and asking for a cup of tea.’ ‘You didn’t expect me to crawl in, did you, and sup at the dog-bowl?’ She was trembling with surprise and anger, but managed to get the kettle under the tap and on the stove. ‘Why didn’t you send a telegram at least?’ ‘You might have thought I was dead or something. I don’t like to frighten people.’ ‘I suppose you wanted to see who I was living with?’ He noticed a uniform tunic hanging on the wall.MoreLess
‘I’m all right. What the bleddy-hell was you doing all this time? How are you?
‘Going around Algeria. I’m fine, fit enough. Won’t you make me some tea?’ She’d altered little in thirty months, a few lines by the side of her hazel eyes, oval face paler – though everyone seemed pale in this country.
‘You’ve got a cheek,’ she cried, ‘leaving me all this time and... then walking back in here as large as life and asking for a cup of tea.’ ‘You didn’t expect me to crawl in, did you, and sup at the dog-bowl?’ She was trembling with surprise and anger, but managed to get the kettle under the tap and on the stove. ‘Why didn’t you send a telegram at least?’ ‘You might have thought I was dead or something. I don’t like to frighten people.’ ‘I suppose you wanted to see who I was living with?’ He noticed a uniform tunic hanging on the wall.MoreLess
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