The Little Drummer Girl
“Such as this anarchist friend she has?" "Oh, he'd be the last to know." "Ned, is there anybody apart from you--think carefully, please, girlfriend, boyfriend, maybe an older person, family friend--in whom Charlie would confide such a shift in position?Away from radicalism? Ned?" "Not that I know of, no. No, I can't think of a soul. She's close in some ways. Closer than you'd think." Then a most extraordinary thing happened. Ned later provided Marjory with an exact account of it. To escape the u...ncomfortable and, to Ned's ear, histrionic crossfire of their separate gazes on him, Ned had been playing with his glass, peering into it, rolling the Marc around. Sensing that Kurtz had somehow rested his case, he now glanced up, and intercepted an expression of quite evident relief in Kurtz's features that he was in the act of communicating to Litvak: his actual pleasure that Charlie was not after all softening in her conviction. Or, if she was, had not admitted it to anybody of note. He looked again and it had gone.MoreLess
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