Malice Aforethought
“But the un-expected could still shock him.
And he was not prepared for the hospital crest on the stark white foolscap envelope as he gathered up the post on Monday morning. He felt his heart pounding as he resisted the urge to open the letter himself, to protect the wife who seemed now so vulnerable, after being for so many years the rock to which his family was tethered. Christine was sitting at the table as he took the post into the warm kitchen. ‘I think your letter from the hospital’s c...ome,’ he said. He wondered at the banality of the words; his voice sounded strangely high and brittle in his own ears.
She smiled up at him, slit the envelope with the slim, expert fingers which he had watched at a thousand household tasks over the years, handed him the sheet he now could not bring himself to read. ‘I’m to go in tomorrow,’ she said. ‘That probably means they’ll operate on Wednesday, all being well.’ A curious phrase that, in these circumstances, he thought.MoreLess
And he was not prepared for the hospital crest on the stark white foolscap envelope as he gathered up the post on Monday morning. He felt his heart pounding as he resisted the urge to open the letter himself, to protect the wife who seemed now so vulnerable, after being for so many years the rock to which his family was tethered. Christine was sitting at the table as he took the post into the warm kitchen. ‘I think your letter from the hospital’s c...ome,’ he said. He wondered at the banality of the words; his voice sounded strangely high and brittle in his own ears.
She smiled up at him, slit the envelope with the slim, expert fingers which he had watched at a thousand household tasks over the years, handed him the sheet he now could not bring himself to read. ‘I’m to go in tomorrow,’ she said. ‘That probably means they’ll operate on Wednesday, all being well.’ A curious phrase that, in these circumstances, he thought.MoreLess
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