Visitors (2012)
“David asked for and received a plate of plain boiled rice. Harold did the same. ‘Don’t be silly, Harold,’ said his wife. By way of compensation David suggested that the following day might be devoted to a fast. ‘I’m sure you approve, Dr Goldmark.’ ‘What’s that?’ said Monty Goldmark, expert in deflecting requests for medical opinions. Tonight he was deploying his favourite stratagem: an affectation of deafness.
‘An occasional fast day is good for the health?’ ‘If you say so.’ ‘This is all quite delicious, Kitty,’ said Mrs May, anxious to maintain and prolong the pleasant welcome they had all received. ‘And such a pretty table.’ Kitty, surveying her family, nodded her acknowledgement. Effusions and explanations would come later, on the telephone, accompanied by an account of her state of health at every stage of the proceedings. This evening, however, she seemed mollified, as did Austin; an illusion of family solidarity was fostered, with all the formality of another age.
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