The Parasite Person (2014)
“Martin was still sleeping—it had seemed a shame to wake him after his broken night—and so she had decided to go ahead and have breakfast by herself.
It was incredible, the difference it made. Even while she ate it, sitting at their usual little table with its blue and white check cloth, Helen already felt puzzled by the aura of leisure which had seemed to surround the whole operation. How could it be that making coffee and toast for one could take so very much less time than making it for t...wo? And the cereal was even more puzzling. All she had to do in any case was to get the packet out of the cupboard and set it on the table: how was it that even this tiny chore seemed somehow so much easier and less complicated when Martin wasn’t sitting there waiting for it?
It was amazing. Disconcerting, really: and the net result was that well before eight o’clock here she was, breakfast finished and cleared away, and not even any typing to do, because with Martin asleep she did not know what to be getting on with.MoreLess
It was incredible, the difference it made. Even while she ate it, sitting at their usual little table with its blue and white check cloth, Helen already felt puzzled by the aura of leisure which had seemed to surround the whole operation. How could it be that making coffee and toast for one could take so very much less time than making it for t...wo? And the cereal was even more puzzling. All she had to do in any case was to get the packet out of the cupboard and set it on the table: how was it that even this tiny chore seemed somehow so much easier and less complicated when Martin wasn’t sitting there waiting for it?
It was amazing. Disconcerting, really: and the net result was that well before eight o’clock here she was, breakfast finished and cleared away, and not even any typing to do, because with Martin asleep she did not know what to be getting on with.MoreLess
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