Thicker Than Water
“Her feverish dream, mercifully forgotten, flooded back, bringing a shudder of revulsion. Why couldn’t the blasted man go home? she thought irritably. And an appalling thought struck her: suppose he wasn’t a visitor after all; suppose he actually lived here?Unable to bear the suspense, she half ran to where he was sitting, and, when he looked up, blurted out, ‘You don’t live here, do you?’He smiled, removing his sunglasses. ‘Good morning, Mrs Irving,’ he said.‘Good morning,’ she stammered, alrea...dy furious with herself, and added foolishly, ‘It’s just that most people only stay two weeks.’‘Ah, but I’m not most people.’ His expression as he looked her slowly up and down bordered on insolence, and she wondered hotly if he was remembering her without her clothes. ‘Since you’re so interested, though,’ he continued after a pause, ‘the answer is that I’m a schoolteacher, and we have long summer holidays.’‘A schoolteacher?’ she repeated doubtfully. He didn’t look in the least academic.‘PE and sport,’ he amplified, as though reading her mind.MoreLess
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