The Colonel's Daughter (2008)
“In Wengen, Colonel Browne is standing in the shallow end of the swimming pool of the Hotel Alpenrose, preparing himself for the moment of immersion on a late Friday afternoon. The sun, which has shone on the pool for most of the day, is grimacing now on the corner of the mountain. In moments, even before the Colonel has swum his slow and stately six lengths, the shadow of the mountain will fall splat across the water, will fall crash across the copy of The Day of the Tortoise by H. E. Bates tha...t Lady Amelia Browne is peering at on her poolside chair. Lady Amelia Browne will look up from The Day of the Tortoise and call to Colonel Browne: ‘The sun’s gone in, Duffy!’ The Colonel will hear her voice in the middle of his fifth length, but will make no reply. He will swim carefully on until he has made his final turn and his sixth length is bringing him in, bringing him back as life has always brought him in and brought him back to his wife Amelia holding his bath towel. Together, then, they will walk slowly into the Hotel Alpenrose, she with her book and the suncream for her white legs, he wrapped in the towel, shivering slightly so that his big belly feels cramped, carrying his airmail edition of the Daily Telegraph and his size ten leather sandals.MoreLess
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