The Driver's Seat
“He jumps up when Lise enters and falls upon her with a delight that impresses the whole lobby, and in such haste that a plastic bag that he is clutching, insufficiently sealed, emits a small trail of wild rice in his progress towards her.
She follows him back to his seat and takes a chair beside him. ‘Look at my coat,’ she says. ‘I got mixed up in a student demonstration and I’m still crying from the effect of tear-gas. I had a date at the Hilton for dinner with a very important Sheikh but I wa...s too late, as I went to buy him a pair of slippers for a present. He’d gone on safari. So he wasn’t my type, anyway. Shooting animals.’ ‘I’d just about given you up,’ says Bill. ‘You were to be here at seven. I’ve been desperate.’ He takes her hand, smiling with glad flashes of teeth and eyes. ‘You wouldn’t have been so unkind as to have dinner with someone else, would you? I’m hungry.’ ‘And my car got stolen,’ she says.
‘What car?’ ‘Oh, just a car.
‘I didn’t know you had a car.MoreLess
She follows him back to his seat and takes a chair beside him. ‘Look at my coat,’ she says. ‘I got mixed up in a student demonstration and I’m still crying from the effect of tear-gas. I had a date at the Hilton for dinner with a very important Sheikh but I wa...s too late, as I went to buy him a pair of slippers for a present. He’d gone on safari. So he wasn’t my type, anyway. Shooting animals.’ ‘I’d just about given you up,’ says Bill. ‘You were to be here at seven. I’ve been desperate.’ He takes her hand, smiling with glad flashes of teeth and eyes. ‘You wouldn’t have been so unkind as to have dinner with someone else, would you? I’m hungry.’ ‘And my car got stolen,’ she says.
‘What car?’ ‘Oh, just a car.
‘I didn’t know you had a car.MoreLess
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