The Men And the Girls (1993)
“‘My little yellow peril, where the bloody hell have you put my slippers?’ ‘Under bed,’ said Mrs Cheng. ‘Alway’ under bed.’ ‘And how,’ said Leonard, leaning on his stick and snorting at her down his nose, ‘how am I, with a gammy hip and a ticker on the blink, supposed to get them? Grovel about on the floor to find the sodding things?’ Mrs Cheng went on dusting, flick, flick, like a mechanical doll.
‘Alway’ do.’ ‘Never do. Shall I spend the day in my bleeding socks?’ ‘S’pose so.’ Leonard was ...very happy. He adored the days Mrs Cheng came, and heaven knows, this week needed a little light relief.
‘There’s been an atmosphere here,’ he said confidingly. ‘An atmosphere like nuclear fall-out. James knocked some old bat off her bike and pow – mushroom cloud.’ ‘Not interested,’ said Mrs Cheng. She began to move all the pill bottles off the glass shelf above Leonard’s basin.
‘Mind you,’ Leonard said, poking about under his bed and fishing out his slippers with the hooked end of his stick, ‘it was a pretty damned stupid thing to do, driving without specs.’ Mrs Cheng ran water into the basin and began to polish the taps.MoreLess
‘Alway’ do.’ ‘Never do. Shall I spend the day in my bleeding socks?’ ‘S’pose so.’ Leonard was ...very happy. He adored the days Mrs Cheng came, and heaven knows, this week needed a little light relief.
‘There’s been an atmosphere here,’ he said confidingly. ‘An atmosphere like nuclear fall-out. James knocked some old bat off her bike and pow – mushroom cloud.’ ‘Not interested,’ said Mrs Cheng. She began to move all the pill bottles off the glass shelf above Leonard’s basin.
‘Mind you,’ Leonard said, poking about under his bed and fishing out his slippers with the hooked end of his stick, ‘it was a pretty damned stupid thing to do, driving without specs.’ Mrs Cheng ran water into the basin and began to polish the taps.MoreLess
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