Be Shot for Six Pence (2013)
“That was a warning, if I needed one.
I didn’t see her until the afternoon, and by the time she came down I saw that twelve hours sleep had performed its customary service. Her eyes were clear and the spring was back in her step.
“Come out into the garden,” she said, “and I will apologise.”
“For what?”
“For last night. If I had not been frightened and tired I would not have done it.”
“I’d like to see you perform when you’re fresh,” I said. “My navel is still tingling.”
“I am adept with a knife,”... admitted Trüe. She spoke it in just the casual, self-deprecating way that an English girl might say, “I’m not bad at tennis, really.”
“Let us sit in this summer-house,” I said. “It is designed for confidences. You tell me the story of your life and I’ll tell you mine. And stop Tutti from breathing in my face.”
“Is he not a monster?” She said something in colloquial Hungarian to the mastiff, who removed himself from my chest, grumbled unhappily, and laid himself down across the opening of the summer-house like a sunken tree across a dam.MoreLess
I didn’t see her until the afternoon, and by the time she came down I saw that twelve hours sleep had performed its customary service. Her eyes were clear and the spring was back in her step.
“Come out into the garden,” she said, “and I will apologise.”
“For what?”
“For last night. If I had not been frightened and tired I would not have done it.”
“I’d like to see you perform when you’re fresh,” I said. “My navel is still tingling.”
“I am adept with a knife,”... admitted Trüe. She spoke it in just the casual, self-deprecating way that an English girl might say, “I’m not bad at tennis, really.”
“Let us sit in this summer-house,” I said. “It is designed for confidences. You tell me the story of your life and I’ll tell you mine. And stop Tutti from breathing in my face.”
“Is he not a monster?” She said something in colloquial Hungarian to the mastiff, who removed himself from my chest, grumbled unhappily, and laid himself down across the opening of the summer-house like a sunken tree across a dam.MoreLess
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