The Towers of Love (2016)
“And it was going to be a little awkward, his mother said as she stood in the dining-room surveying the arrangement of tiny, silver-framed place cards on the table, because it was five men and only three women. But perhaps it would be all right, she said, if you counted Titi as a lady. After all, he could be either-or.
The guests started coming at half past seven and the first to arrive, not surprisingly, was Austin Callender, right on the clock stroke, anxious to impress his future parents-in-l...aw with his punctuality.
“Austin, my angel!” Hugh’s mother cried as she hurried towards him and kissed him first on one cheek, then on the other. She was in a pink velvet dinner dress with a chinchilla collar and deep chinchilla cuffs and, at her throat and wrists, large pink crystal beads that rattled as she moved. Watching her to-night, Hugh decided it was a good thing that he had not seen her during the day; it had spared them both the need for mentioning the scene in her room the night before.MoreLess
The guests started coming at half past seven and the first to arrive, not surprisingly, was Austin Callender, right on the clock stroke, anxious to impress his future parents-in-l...aw with his punctuality.
“Austin, my angel!” Hugh’s mother cried as she hurried towards him and kissed him first on one cheek, then on the other. She was in a pink velvet dinner dress with a chinchilla collar and deep chinchilla cuffs and, at her throat and wrists, large pink crystal beads that rattled as she moved. Watching her to-night, Hugh decided it was a good thing that he had not seen her during the day; it had spared them both the need for mentioning the scene in her room the night before.MoreLess
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