Hotel De Dream (2013)
“Mrs Routledge, whose fantasy he had been for so long, came as an unpleasant surprise to him. Miss Briggs seemed to have a power over him—she had brought him here, after all, without his expressing the least desire to accompany her—and his knighthood, the apex of his career, had been performed by her, an impersonator of Her Majesty. She was smiling at him proudly as he nibbled nuts and sipped at the warm gin and tonic provided. He felt, for the first time in his life, baffled and confused by the... events of the day, and although an outsider would have awarded a prize to Mr Rathbone for the calm and composure with which he discussed cricket with Mr Poynter, acquaintances in common with Mrs Houghton, and the urgent need to reform the comprehensive school system with Miss Scranton, he was in fact desperate to return to his tiny flat and his large wife, to ask her why she had disappeared so mysteriously at the gates of the Palace, and to gain reassurance in himself by going for a stroll with her in the park and seeing how incomparably bigger he was than the rest of the population.MoreLess
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