Lie With Me
“Alice was already up. I put on Andrew’s trunks and a T-shirt, found my book, and wandered out on to the terrace. The air was seriously warm, the sun dappling through a vine from which grapes hung almost indecently heavy. The table was laid for breakfast – cups and plates, a jug of coffee, butter and honey. One of the glasses had been upturned to trap an insect. I studied it carefully; a prawn with wings. A still, silent cicada.I lifted the glass to free it, but it didn’t move. It looked mournfu...l, one leg crooked at an angle. I wondered if it were dead. Using the cover of In Cold Blood as a stretcher, I carried it over to a pot of lavender and gently scooped it on to the earth. It sat there, still motionless.‘What’s that?’ Tina was standing in the door to the kitchen, wrapped in a pink linen dressing gown.‘Oh. Nothing. Just rescuing one of earth’s precious creatures.’ I sat down at the table, and flapped a napkin on to my lap. ‘This is rather lovely. Have you seen Alice?’‘Gone to get bread.’She stepped out on to the terrace and pulled out a chair.MoreLess
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