Talking to Strange Men (1996)
“He suspected him of trying to make things look bad for Mark Simms, out of some kind of undefined malice, presumably. John didn’t understand any of it. Well, he understood that Mark Simms was innocent of Cherry’s murder and that for some reason he had lied. Was it possible he had lied about her manner of living as well?
He had gone to work eventually but he couldn’t concentrate. This didn’t much matter as they got less custom in August than perhaps during any other month. Walking about the rose ...gardens, nipping the dead heads off pink Wendy Cussons and vermilion Troika, he was aware of an unexpected feeling. It was relief. His sky was lightening. His hands full of petals, he looked up at the overcast heavens and felt easier, less tense and stressed. The past had been wiped a little, if not washed clean. The immediate past too seemed less agonizing and less incomprehensible. And he hadn’t committed the unforgivable crime, the crime he could hardly now imagine he had contemplated, of perpetrating some act of violence, perhaps worse than that, against Jennifer’s lover.MoreLess
He had gone to work eventually but he couldn’t concentrate. This didn’t much matter as they got less custom in August than perhaps during any other month. Walking about the rose ...gardens, nipping the dead heads off pink Wendy Cussons and vermilion Troika, he was aware of an unexpected feeling. It was relief. His sky was lightening. His hands full of petals, he looked up at the overcast heavens and felt easier, less tense and stressed. The past had been wiped a little, if not washed clean. The immediate past too seemed less agonizing and less incomprehensible. And he hadn’t committed the unforgivable crime, the crime he could hardly now imagine he had contemplated, of perpetrating some act of violence, perhaps worse than that, against Jennifer’s lover.MoreLess
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