The White Garden: a Novel of Virginia Woolf
“MARCUS SYMONDS-JONES REMARKED, “that Mr. Llewellyn is out of mobile range at the moment.”“Why don’t you tell us about the guy?” Gray Westlake was sitting at his ease in the Bauhaus chair, one tailored leg crossed over the other. Why, then, did Marcus sense the coil of a venomous snake?“Oh, Peter’s quite sound,” he murmured. “Or rather, he has been. Until lately. Excellent credentials. Knows his stuff. Magdalen man. Been working Rare Books for a decade at least. Twelve years, perhaps.”“Does he u...sually go AWOL with clients?”“Sorry?” Marcus glanced at the Cantwell woman, but Imogen seemed as bewildered by the term as he was.“Absent without leave.”“Right. Peter has never done a bunk like this in my knowledge of him. But to tell you the truth”—Marcus leaned over his desk with an air of confidentiality—“he hasn’t been the same since the wife left him. Very hot property, that—legs right up to her neck—”Imogen snorted.“Trophy wife?” Gray suggested.Marcus knew this phrase—trophy wives abounded in Sotheby’s world, spending their husbands’ wealth on furniture and jewelry and priceless works of art—but he shook his head emphatically.MoreLess
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