They Met in Zanzibar

Authors: Kathryn Blair

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“Jim was lounging in the living room with a drink before lunch, and Peg, changing a shirt that was damp with sweat for a dry one, heard the men greet each other from her bedroom“Hallo, Jim,” Steve said, in a voice which sounded careless but non-committal. “I’ve brought you some reading matter I’ve finished with. You haven’t had it lately and there’s quite a pile.”“Thanks,” came her father’s reply, equally unrevealing. “Help yourself to a drink.”An interval, while Peg hastily buttoned her plain w...hite shirt and pressed a tissue to the patch of perspiration each side of her nose. She’d had a rushed morning and in spite of a quick shower still felt sticky. She stood back and looked at her blue linen shorts. A skirt over them? Oh, to blazes with Steve.But at the door she paused, as he began to speak again. “Been missing you at the card parties, Jim. The men think you’ve a grudge against the whole lot of them, instead of only me.”“I guess I’d feel out of it these days,”MoreLess Read More Read Less