Fearful Symmetry
“He had never been handed so much on a plate in his life, at least never so much of what he wanted. She didn’t exactly volunteer, but nor was she unwilling. She did only what she wanted to and luckily for him, she also wanted to sing. Can you give me a trill, like this? On these two notes, a top A and B flat? Yes, that’s it, lovely, lovely. She simply didn’t mind what he asked. She would just do it, then stare at him patiently, wanting his next instruction, only a little less eager than a spanie...l waiting for him to throw a stick. That was it. It was her compliance that was almost off-putting. As a child Cosmo had learned to express his wants to his elderly parents by means of carefully veiled wheedling. Adele’s naked, unconcealed wish to please was almost embarrassing next to his own perfected indirectness.But then, he told himself, it must please her to please him or she simply would not do it, any of it. Oh, yes. Lovely Adele, oh yes, that’s lovely. Still, it made him feel almost awkward, her being quite so pliable in her uninterested way, like a good-natured tart.MoreLess
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