Mating Rituals of the North American Wasp (2009)
“After returning from the market, she’d spent the rest of yesterday trying to rid the Silas Sedgwick House of two hundred years of dust. Afterward, she’d worked well past midnight making party appetizers in a kitchen utterly lacking in modern appliances. The whole house, in fact, was a graveyard of archaic tools.
The vacuum cleaner had to be at least as old as she was. The sole television, in the den, actually had antennae; it got three snowy channels. There was a percolator instead of a cof...feemaker. There was no dishwasher, an absence Peggy hadn’t noticed until three o’clock this morning. Not for the first time since her breakup with Brock, she’d wondered as she cooked whether she should call off this deal with Luke, too. But that would be foolish. She might not have a wedding to pay for, but there was still the rent on the store to contend with.
She’d crawled into bed wearier than she thought she’d ever been but had slept fitfully.MoreLess
The vacuum cleaner had to be at least as old as she was. The sole television, in the den, actually had antennae; it got three snowy channels. There was a percolator instead of a cof...feemaker. There was no dishwasher, an absence Peggy hadn’t noticed until three o’clock this morning. Not for the first time since her breakup with Brock, she’d wondered as she cooked whether she should call off this deal with Luke, too. But that would be foolish. She might not have a wedding to pay for, but there was still the rent on the store to contend with.
She’d crawled into bed wearier than she thought she’d ever been but had slept fitfully.MoreLess
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