The Dearly Departed (2002)
“She was not going to forgive this outburst easily—not just the language and the loathing in his voice, but the public nervous breakdown over Margaret Batten’s passing. Good riddance to secretaries worshiping their bosses, and vice versa. It was humiliating at best—this infidelity cloaked as employer lamentation.
She hoped he would appreciate the symbolism of being locked out, excluded, hungry, thirsty; without transportation or toilet and unwilling to relieve himself in the yard. What did that ...say about him? So fastidious that even on their one camping trip, when the boys were small, even in the middle of the night, he’d led them on a hike to the sanitation facility instead of twenty-five yards into the woods.
Maybe he wasn’t coming back. More likely, he’d passed some patient along the way who had to describe her latest lump. He listened too readily; didn’t like it when she reminded these encroachers that her husband practiced medicine Monday through Friday, at his office.MoreLess
She hoped he would appreciate the symbolism of being locked out, excluded, hungry, thirsty; without transportation or toilet and unwilling to relieve himself in the yard. What did that ...say about him? So fastidious that even on their one camping trip, when the boys were small, even in the middle of the night, he’d led them on a hike to the sanitation facility instead of twenty-five yards into the woods.
Maybe he wasn’t coming back. More likely, he’d passed some patient along the way who had to describe her latest lump. He listened too readily; didn’t like it when she reminded these encroachers that her husband practiced medicine Monday through Friday, at his office.MoreLess
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