The Soldier's Wife
“He’d only ever been to watch the tennis at the All England Club, trying to persuade Eka that there was global glamour there, despite all the old buffers in blazers and dated moustaches insisting that good manners should always prevail over spectacular, if occasionally discourteous, playing.
‘Why d’you think you never have a British star?’ Eka said after her second restless visit. ‘I tell you. Because those old men live in the olden days! Nobody allowed to show temper! I show you temper. I getti...ng out of this place right now.’ And she had, running in her perilous sandals with extraordinary skill through the crowds, leaving him to pant behind her, conscious of his physical ineptitude and girth in the wake of her gazelle-like grace. At least George Riley wasn’t going to startle him by sprinting off somewhere unannounced. In fact, he seemed to be the complete opposite, shyly thanking Jack for coming and then confessing that he’d done a stupid thing.
They were sitting in a coffee place, almost at the top of the High Street, Jack painfully aware that it had cost George no effort at all to turn down a chocolate muffin with his cappuccino.MoreLess
‘Why d’you think you never have a British star?’ Eka said after her second restless visit. ‘I tell you. Because those old men live in the olden days! Nobody allowed to show temper! I show you temper. I getti...ng out of this place right now.’ And she had, running in her perilous sandals with extraordinary skill through the crowds, leaving him to pant behind her, conscious of his physical ineptitude and girth in the wake of her gazelle-like grace. At least George Riley wasn’t going to startle him by sprinting off somewhere unannounced. In fact, he seemed to be the complete opposite, shyly thanking Jack for coming and then confessing that he’d done a stupid thing.
They were sitting in a coffee place, almost at the top of the High Street, Jack painfully aware that it had cost George no effort at all to turn down a chocolate muffin with his cappuccino.MoreLess
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