Belshazzar's Daughter
“In spite of the fact that he had left his school at twelve and she her shop just thirty minutes later, both of them looked and indeed were quite tired. Although very little had happened to either of them since their last meeting, internally they had both been very busy with their own thoughts. Robert, in particular, looked pale and strained - not, of course, that his beautiful companion seemed to notice. When the bus arrived she simply got on board and sat down without either proffering a ticke...t to the driver or speaking so much as a word. Gallantly, but typically, Robert found himself paying for her transport. Then, as if to compound his burgeoning isolation, Natalia didn’t speak a word to him during the entire course of their journey across the city. In an attempt to distract himself from her coldness, Robert looked out of the window and tried to enjoy the view. The route back to his apartment took them right along the edge of the Bosporus. The broad seaway sparkled in the sunlight; ferries ploughing and criss-crossing their way between Europe and Asia left glittering trails of thick white foam in their wake, like great, fast-moving snails.MoreLess
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