The Safest Place
“I knew it would come to this, sooner or later. But I didn’t want to face it. I didn’t want to see ahead because there lay only emptiness, an unbearable end.
‘No,’ I said.
‘Jane, we have to. I’m sorry.’ Again I said, ‘No.’ We were sitting in the living room, late on a Sunday afternoon, David at one end of the sofa, me at the other, both of us perched forward on the cushions. He leaned towards me slightly as he spoke, as if in empathy, as if in concern; in truth just to soften his words. ...He had taken the children out earlier to gather the last of the blackberries and now they were dispatched to their rooms to finish homework so that he and I could have time to talk. The silence in the house was ominous.
Slowly, he said, ‘I need to get a place near work, just a flat, just something small . . . but I can’t afford it as well as this place.’ How reminiscent of previous conversations; and of last winter when he sat glued to his computer searching through London flats for sale and rent; all those grotty, forbidding little dives that drove him to shack up with Diana.MoreLess
‘No,’ I said.
‘Jane, we have to. I’m sorry.’ Again I said, ‘No.’ We were sitting in the living room, late on a Sunday afternoon, David at one end of the sofa, me at the other, both of us perched forward on the cushions. He leaned towards me slightly as he spoke, as if in empathy, as if in concern; in truth just to soften his words. ...He had taken the children out earlier to gather the last of the blackberries and now they were dispatched to their rooms to finish homework so that he and I could have time to talk. The silence in the house was ominous.
Slowly, he said, ‘I need to get a place near work, just a flat, just something small . . . but I can’t afford it as well as this place.’ How reminiscent of previous conversations; and of last winter when he sat glued to his computer searching through London flats for sale and rent; all those grotty, forbidding little dives that drove him to shack up with Diana.MoreLess
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