The Mill On the Shore
“Ruth did not like going to the pub much. She had the feeling that most of the regulars resented their presence. It was like gate-crashing a private party, if you could call such a sombre gathering a party.
They always sat in the public bar. Rosie and Jane saw that as a sort of political statement. They said only yuppies went in the lounge, though Ruth thought that in Markham Law yuppies were pretty thin on the ground. In her experience the lounge bar was inhabited by pleasant middle-aged co...uples out for a drive from Mardon or students from the Mill who had escaped for the evening. She suspected they would be better company than the public bar regulars, who were without exception unfriendly and miserable.
The room was long and narrow with a brown linoleum floor and brown varnished tables. It was usually heated by a calor gas heater in one corner and the smell of its fumes always caught at Ruth’s throat when she walked in. She would recoil from the smell and from the stares of the old men who spent all evening at the table next to the heater.MoreLess
They always sat in the public bar. Rosie and Jane saw that as a sort of political statement. They said only yuppies went in the lounge, though Ruth thought that in Markham Law yuppies were pretty thin on the ground. In her experience the lounge bar was inhabited by pleasant middle-aged co...uples out for a drive from Mardon or students from the Mill who had escaped for the evening. She suspected they would be better company than the public bar regulars, who were without exception unfriendly and miserable.
The room was long and narrow with a brown linoleum floor and brown varnished tables. It was usually heated by a calor gas heater in one corner and the smell of its fumes always caught at Ruth’s throat when she walked in. She would recoil from the smell and from the stares of the old men who spent all evening at the table next to the heater.MoreLess
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