Lover
“Lily and I agreed to meet in The Black Horse before we started this evening, to buck ourselves up a bit. All the old girls go in the Ladies’ bar, but they don’t like us in there, so we go to the public room instead. There’s a barman there, Walt. Poor chap had some operation on his face as a nipper and one of the nerves got cut by mistake, and he’s got one cheek paralysed, with a droopy eye and his mouth screwed up so he only talks with half of it, but he’s nice enough, and he’s been sweet on Li...ly for ever so long. It’s a bit pathetic, really, because he never says much, but whenever she comes in his face lights up—well, the part that works does—and he stops whatever he’s doing and runs over to serve her. Every time she speaks to him, even if it’s just to say ‘thank you’, he looks that pleased, and he’s always got some little present that he pushes over the bar, quick, so no one can see. I did ask Lily once, if she’d ever gone with him—you know, when she’s working—and she said he’d never asked, so I suppose he likes to keep it a bit romantic.MoreLess
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