Blaming (Virago Modern Classics)
“On the polished, rickety tables, red candles were arranged amongst plastic Christmas roses, and a small artificial tree stood in a corner. They were decorations of the most discreet kind, for this was one of the so-English tea-shops Martha loved; with horse-brasses, an imitation log fire which gave out more glow than heat, and, apart from it, the darkness from black oak and low ceilings. A lady in a flowered overall had brought tea and home-made scones. A grey cat wove its way among the legs of... customers and chairs.
“It is either this or that,” Simon was saying, referring to his departure to the States, with Martha or alone.
She had considerately refused cakes. It was a great deal because of this – though not consciously – that he had decided to speak of the matter which had been in his mind so long.
She looked across the table at him, wondering what life in America would now be like – and his part of America, not hers. In England, except for his work, he seemed to live in a vacuum.MoreLess
“It is either this or that,” Simon was saying, referring to his departure to the States, with Martha or alone.
She had considerately refused cakes. It was a great deal because of this – though not consciously – that he had decided to speak of the matter which had been in his mind so long.
She looked across the table at him, wondering what life in America would now be like – and his part of America, not hers. In England, except for his work, he seemed to live in a vacuum.MoreLess
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