Her Infinite Variety
“Irving's retirement to a little cottage on the outskirts of New Haven had deprived her of most of the amenities of university life, and the heart attack that had so predictably followed his first year of enforced idleness had soured his temper and sharpened his irritability. And then her son, Brian, now teaching biology at Yale, exempted from military service because of bad eyesight, had taken up with a waitress at the Taft Hotel and was talking seriously of marriage. If she wasn't even to have... Clara's brilliant life to share, however vicariously, what life remained for her?
Clara had summoned her to New York and given her the wretched news over lunch. Always that fatal midday meal! If one planned a murder it would have to be over lunch. Clara was very brief; she wished, she said, to confine herself to the bare facts, and these she laid, so to speak, on the table between their unfinished Dubonnet and their prematurely served vichyssoise.
"What madness!" Violet exclaimed.MoreLess
Clara had summoned her to New York and given her the wretched news over lunch. Always that fatal midday meal! If one planned a murder it would have to be over lunch. Clara was very brief; she wished, she said, to confine herself to the bare facts, and these she laid, so to speak, on the table between their unfinished Dubonnet and their prematurely served vichyssoise.
"What madness!" Violet exclaimed.MoreLess
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