First Papers (2011)
“For the first time since they had moved into the apartment, the heat coming up was slow and inadequate, knocking against the pipes in thumps of protest that the task assigned on this bitter morning was too great.
Garry said, “Don’t get up yet. Let’s have a fire in here and feel pampered.”
“Ooh,” Letty said.
He built a husky fire. In the small fireplace in their bedroom, the logs they always used seemed massive, but this was the first fire they had ever had while they were in bed, and they found... it intimate and charming.
“I could bring our breakfast in here,” Letty said, not moving. She gazed past him to their stretch of garden. “Maybe you can’t get to the lab at all today,” she said. “Just look at it out there.”
The garden lay foamy and glistening under their windows. Where drifts had sloped up against the dark-green wood fence separating the Tenth Street gardens from their own and from their neighbors, he could have stood in snow up to his shoulders. For a moment, as he put on his bathrobe near the frost-traced windows, he wished he could keep away from Aldrich today, and wander about the city’s muted, fluffy streets instead.MoreLess
Garry said, “Don’t get up yet. Let’s have a fire in here and feel pampered.”
“Ooh,” Letty said.
He built a husky fire. In the small fireplace in their bedroom, the logs they always used seemed massive, but this was the first fire they had ever had while they were in bed, and they found... it intimate and charming.
“I could bring our breakfast in here,” Letty said, not moving. She gazed past him to their stretch of garden. “Maybe you can’t get to the lab at all today,” she said. “Just look at it out there.”
The garden lay foamy and glistening under their windows. Where drifts had sloped up against the dark-green wood fence separating the Tenth Street gardens from their own and from their neighbors, he could have stood in snow up to his shoulders. For a moment, as he put on his bathrobe near the frost-traced windows, he wished he could keep away from Aldrich today, and wander about the city’s muted, fluffy streets instead.MoreLess
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