Trust Me (2012)
““Well, if I reawy—how does Gwen talk?—if I re-awwy cared about conserwation—” And he, the husband, would laugh and laugh, even though Gwen was secretly his mistress and would become his second wife. What he liked about her was her liveliness in bed, and what he disliked about his first wife was the way she would ask to have her back rubbed and then, under his laboring hands, night after night, fall asleep.
For the first years of the new marriage, after he and Gwen had returned from a party, he ...would wait, unconsciously, for the imitations, the recapitulation, to begin. He would even prompt: “What did you make of our hostess’s brother?”
“Oh,” Gwen would simply say, “he seemed very pleasant.” Sensing with feminine intuition that he expected more, she might add, “Harmless. Maybe a little stuffy.” Her eyes flashed as she heard in his expectant silence an unvoiced demand, and with that touching, childlike impediment of hers she blurted out, “What are you reawy after?”MoreLess
For the first years of the new marriage, after he and Gwen had returned from a party, he ...would wait, unconsciously, for the imitations, the recapitulation, to begin. He would even prompt: “What did you make of our hostess’s brother?”
“Oh,” Gwen would simply say, “he seemed very pleasant.” Sensing with feminine intuition that he expected more, she might add, “Harmless. Maybe a little stuffy.” Her eyes flashed as she heard in his expectant silence an unvoiced demand, and with that touching, childlike impediment of hers she blurted out, “What are you reawy after?”MoreLess
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