Other Plans
“He became Ceil’s friend before he became her lover. But before that, they had almost become enemies.
They worked together in the office of the architect who eventually took Henry on as a junior partner. Ceil had a way of holding her head, thick hair swinging, a way of walking, as if she owned the world, that got to him. When he first laid eyes on her, his breathing actually grew labored and his chest hurt, like a man in the throes of a heart attack. He suggested they have lunch at the drugstore... around the corner; they would go Dutch, he said, and have a BLT, which the drugstore did superbly, and a chocolate float.
Sorry, she was busy. That day and the next. The whole week, in fact. It wasn’t so much the Dutch bit as it was his presumption that she’d be free on such short notice. Henry lunched instead with a frivolous blonde whose brother was a friend from college. Henry paid the check.
Henry was a Yale man, a fact he did nothing to either conceal or belabor. Yale turned out to be a drawback, as far as Ceil was concerned.MoreLess
They worked together in the office of the architect who eventually took Henry on as a junior partner. Ceil had a way of holding her head, thick hair swinging, a way of walking, as if she owned the world, that got to him. When he first laid eyes on her, his breathing actually grew labored and his chest hurt, like a man in the throes of a heart attack. He suggested they have lunch at the drugstore... around the corner; they would go Dutch, he said, and have a BLT, which the drugstore did superbly, and a chocolate float.
Sorry, she was busy. That day and the next. The whole week, in fact. It wasn’t so much the Dutch bit as it was his presumption that she’d be free on such short notice. Henry lunched instead with a frivolous blonde whose brother was a friend from college. Henry paid the check.
Henry was a Yale man, a fact he did nothing to either conceal or belabor. Yale turned out to be a drawback, as far as Ceil was concerned.MoreLess
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