Venus Envy
“And not to me? her tone implied.
I sighed. ‘Gail, you’ve met Charlie exactly twice.’ ‘But we got on so wonderfully. He agreed with . everything I said about better to go naked than wear fur,’ Gail pouted.
‘He’s the Master of his local beagles,’ I said flatly. Tom’s kid brother Charles was one of those faceless, horsy typs I thought should be first against the wall, come the revolution, back when I believed in revolution. Now I got furiously incensed when strikes caused my Tube trains to be over...crowded. But I knew I still wouldn’t care for Charles Drummond, who called me a ‘mongrel’ and an ‘unbroken filly’ when we rowed about Mrs Thatcher. He had none of his brother’s sense of humour or natural dominance. He was obsessed with class. He liked to hang out with the younger sons of dukes and Old Etonians, and he had watery eyes and a braying laugh. It was true he hadn’t contradicted Gall, but then he hadn’t been listening to her. Anything a woman said was just so much woolly bleating, as far as Charlie was concerned, ‘I’ve only been invited because Tom insisted.”MoreLess
I sighed. ‘Gail, you’ve met Charlie exactly twice.’ ‘But we got on so wonderfully. He agreed with . everything I said about better to go naked than wear fur,’ Gail pouted.
‘He’s the Master of his local beagles,’ I said flatly. Tom’s kid brother Charles was one of those faceless, horsy typs I thought should be first against the wall, come the revolution, back when I believed in revolution. Now I got furiously incensed when strikes caused my Tube trains to be over...crowded. But I knew I still wouldn’t care for Charles Drummond, who called me a ‘mongrel’ and an ‘unbroken filly’ when we rowed about Mrs Thatcher. He had none of his brother’s sense of humour or natural dominance. He was obsessed with class. He liked to hang out with the younger sons of dukes and Old Etonians, and he had watery eyes and a braying laugh. It was true he hadn’t contradicted Gall, but then he hadn’t been listening to her. Anything a woman said was just so much woolly bleating, as far as Charlie was concerned, ‘I’ve only been invited because Tom insisted.”MoreLess
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