The Colour (2008)
“When she knocked on Dr Pettifer’s door, she was told by his wife that he was out delivering a baby. At first, Harriet said that she would wait for him, in the little low street, but then, suddenly afraid that a difference of half an hour’s delay might mean the difference between Lilian’s life and death, asked Dr Pettifer’s wife whether she might go to the house where the child was being born and catch him there.
She was directed to a shop, Parsons & Co., which sold tea and coffee, and told to r...ing the bell. She tied Billy to a post and stared in the shop window, and saw candles flickering on the counter and near it a trestle table on which was lying the scant remains of a meal, and she thought how the child about to be born might always remember this in his future life: eating his suppers by candlelight in the tiny store where his parents worked all day. She rang the bell, but nobody came. After ringing a second time, Harriet opened the door and went inside.
The smell of coffee was like the smell of a wood fire, she thought, because both spoke to the human mind of some pause in the onward rush of events, some parenthesis in which the body could be comfortable and still.MoreLess
She was directed to a shop, Parsons & Co., which sold tea and coffee, and told to r...ing the bell. She tied Billy to a post and stared in the shop window, and saw candles flickering on the counter and near it a trestle table on which was lying the scant remains of a meal, and she thought how the child about to be born might always remember this in his future life: eating his suppers by candlelight in the tiny store where his parents worked all day. She rang the bell, but nobody came. After ringing a second time, Harriet opened the door and went inside.
The smell of coffee was like the smell of a wood fire, she thought, because both spoke to the human mind of some pause in the onward rush of events, some parenthesis in which the body could be comfortable and still.MoreLess
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