The Sea Change
“There are two small bedrooms at the top of this house we’ve taken; Emmanuel has one – ostensibly for writing, but he’s taken to sleeping there – and I have the other. We all go to bed late, as the evenings are cooler for walking about, and most of us rest in the afternoons. We’d had a good evening; gone down to the port and eaten at one of the restaurants. The food is lousy, but what travel bureaux call the atmosphere – and I don’t know what else to call it – is gay; and the brandy although it ...tastes cheap actually is. There was a young girl playing an accordion; it’s a queer instrument for a girl, but she played it very well, and what looked like all her family stood around and shouted and sang and she never said anything back – just smiled and smiled. Well – we walked home along a path overlooking the sea; the fishing boats were out with flare lights to attract the fish and the moon was coming up, shining, someone said, like pewter on the sea; I remembered this because it bothered me, I couldn’t think what pewter was.MoreLess
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