Secrecy (2011)
“To the contrary she was in a hurry to go back to work. At the table on the last night, while eating the good food that Emmabrown had prepared, she was impatient with herself. What on earth had she expected, some sort of comfortable, warm return to the womb, or at least to childhood? As if, she thought ironically, my childhood had ever been all that warm.
Bill broke a silence that had lasted for at least five minutes. “Do you hear anything special from your—from Elena?”
“Just the usual. She plan...s to be in New York next fall and expects to see me there. I wish she’d fly to Boston sometimes. It’s not easy for me to take as much time off as she wants me to take.”
“Still, it’s nice for you to be together.”
This ordinary, even trite, remark lingered in the air, heavy with sad connotations, like a final note in a minor key.
“I had a birthday card from her with a nice message. She was always punctilious about birthdays and Christmas.”
Bill’s vocabulary had never been imaginative.MoreLess
Bill broke a silence that had lasted for at least five minutes. “Do you hear anything special from your—from Elena?”
“Just the usual. She plan...s to be in New York next fall and expects to see me there. I wish she’d fly to Boston sometimes. It’s not easy for me to take as much time off as she wants me to take.”
“Still, it’s nice for you to be together.”
This ordinary, even trite, remark lingered in the air, heavy with sad connotations, like a final note in a minor key.
“I had a birthday card from her with a nice message. She was always punctilious about birthdays and Christmas.”
Bill’s vocabulary had never been imaginative.MoreLess
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