Alchemist (2010)
“Hilda Judd closed her front door and hurried down the garden path to the gate. Half past the hour and on the hour. A black saloon car lurched down the road in fits and starts, rings of thick grey smoke belching from its exhaust. Two small boys barged past her playing tag.
‘Manners!’ she shouted after them, furious, but her words fell on deaf ears.
It was raining hard. She wore a mackintosh buttoned to the neck, a rain hat with the tapes tied beneath her chin, and galoshes. In her left arm she c...lutched her handbag.
She had two minutes, according to the hands of the kitchen clock. God would delay it, if she asked Him. She closed her eyes for a moment, murmured a prayer, then hurried to the end of the block where she turned right, walked past a row of brick façades that were all that remained of a terrace hit by a V2 in 1945.
Sharp needles of rain struck her face and she stiffened her cheeks against them. A red OXO van crossed the intersection ahead of her, weaving and jigging along the tramlines.MoreLess
‘Manners!’ she shouted after them, furious, but her words fell on deaf ears.
It was raining hard. She wore a mackintosh buttoned to the neck, a rain hat with the tapes tied beneath her chin, and galoshes. In her left arm she c...lutched her handbag.
She had two minutes, according to the hands of the kitchen clock. God would delay it, if she asked Him. She closed her eyes for a moment, murmured a prayer, then hurried to the end of the block where she turned right, walked past a row of brick façades that were all that remained of a terrace hit by a V2 in 1945.
Sharp needles of rain struck her face and she stiffened her cheeks against them. A red OXO van crossed the intersection ahead of her, weaving and jigging along the tramlines.MoreLess
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