Dark Corners: a Novel
“No matter how far emancipation had progressed towards equality, a woman might tell a man she wanted to care for him but she could not admit to him that she wanted to defend him from another man. Anyway, she seldom saw Dermot. If she heard him on the stairs, she kept inside the living room until the front door closed. They had met only once recently, in the hallway, she going out and he coming in, he from the pet clinic and carrying shopping, she on her way to buy something for an evening meal.
...‘You’re living here full time again now, are you?’ he had asked. There were several ways of putting that enquiry, and Dermot’s phrasing was rather accusatory, the implication being that she shouldn’t have been. She would have liked to ask him if he had any objection, but Carl’s fear of Dermot was beginning to affect her too.
‘I am, yes,’ she said.
He shook his head, the kind of gesture that implied wonder more than disapproval. ‘As I always say,’ he said, ‘it takes all sorts to make a world.’ She said nothing about it to Carl.MoreLess
...‘You’re living here full time again now, are you?’ he had asked. There were several ways of putting that enquiry, and Dermot’s phrasing was rather accusatory, the implication being that she shouldn’t have been. She would have liked to ask him if he had any objection, but Carl’s fear of Dermot was beginning to affect her too.
‘I am, yes,’ she said.
He shook his head, the kind of gesture that implied wonder more than disapproval. ‘As I always say,’ he said, ‘it takes all sorts to make a world.’ She said nothing about it to Carl.MoreLess
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