The Shepherd File
“She turned over, face down on the pillow, putting her arms up underneath the pillow so that she was holding on to it to stifle her sobs, something to hang on to.
The footsteps went past the door. They receded briskly down the corridor. There was a long silence. A faint line of light came at one side of the door and widened inch by inch, light sweeping into the room. She knew what was happening. She wanted to stop it. She wanted to get up and stop him and make him talk. She did nothing excep...t lie on the bed, hugging the pillow, watching the light widening and spreading.
He moved through the door, slowly and gently, and again she thought how silently he moves and she had a feeling that it was unsafe out there in the light and again wanted to call him back, this time more urgently than before, and yet she went on hugging the pillow and watching and doing nothing. It was the massage, she thought, and losing her temper when he had talked about someone else drowning, and lying awake without sleeping pills or tranquillizers to dull the emotions.MoreLess
The footsteps went past the door. They receded briskly down the corridor. There was a long silence. A faint line of light came at one side of the door and widened inch by inch, light sweeping into the room. She knew what was happening. She wanted to stop it. She wanted to get up and stop him and make him talk. She did nothing excep...t lie on the bed, hugging the pillow, watching the light widening and spreading.
He moved through the door, slowly and gently, and again she thought how silently he moves and she had a feeling that it was unsafe out there in the light and again wanted to call him back, this time more urgently than before, and yet she went on hugging the pillow and watching and doing nothing. It was the massage, she thought, and losing her temper when he had talked about someone else drowning, and lying awake without sleeping pills or tranquillizers to dull the emotions.MoreLess
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