Out of the Blackout
“There was no follow-up to those parting words, in spite of their rather off-putting friendliness. The routines of the ground floor followed their unchanging pattern: each night three pairs of footsteps were heard as the family put themselves to bed; and in the daytime when Simon was home, fragments of the beginnings or ends of conversations floated up the stairs, before the door to the living quarters was closed. These fragments were almost always unrevealing: ‘No, I won’t forget to buy potatoe...s’ was one; ‘I’m early tonight, Mother’ was another. True he did once hear a woman’s voice—Connie’s?—say: ‘Well, he’s done it once before, hasn’t he?’ and something spiteful in the voice, and the banged door that followed, made Simon note it down in that exercise book that he had started years before in Yeasdon. But when he took up the book and looked through all the entries he had made since he arrived in Miswell Terrace, he felt that no degree of optimism could suggest that they were likely to be of use.MoreLess
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