The Idea of Perfection
“He was tightening his mouth in the way he did, that was not frowning but not smiling either.
Darling, I think we’ve got too much citrus here.
He stood peering into the worm farm, holding one hand in a fist behind his back. Felicity thought he looked ridiculous, like someone dancing with himself, but he was the kind of man who never seemed to realise when he looked ridiculous.
Wouldn’t you say?
He did not look at her, but went on inspecting the old orange peels.
The ratio has to be pretty much e...xact, he said.
He was looking at her now. He had always been good on eye contact. They had had workshops about it, during his Land & Pastoral training: Eye Contact and Body Language. It was for when you had to refuse someone a loan, mainly, but it had always come naturally to Hugh.
It meant he had nothing to hide, she supposed, but she had found the more he did the eye contact thing, the more shifty-eyed she herself became. Now, for example, she felt skewered to the landscape by the twin drills of his eyes.MoreLess
Darling, I think we’ve got too much citrus here.
He stood peering into the worm farm, holding one hand in a fist behind his back. Felicity thought he looked ridiculous, like someone dancing with himself, but he was the kind of man who never seemed to realise when he looked ridiculous.
Wouldn’t you say?
He did not look at her, but went on inspecting the old orange peels.
The ratio has to be pretty much e...xact, he said.
He was looking at her now. He had always been good on eye contact. They had had workshops about it, during his Land & Pastoral training: Eye Contact and Body Language. It was for when you had to refuse someone a loan, mainly, but it had always come naturally to Hugh.
It meant he had nothing to hide, she supposed, but she had found the more he did the eye contact thing, the more shifty-eyed she herself became. Now, for example, she felt skewered to the landscape by the twin drills of his eyes.MoreLess
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