Where We Are Now (2014)
“She’d do that to send the melancholy news of love lost. Would drink help? There was no help for this.
Ambrose picked up the crumpled page, smoothed it out on the round dining table, his gaze flickering toward the doors until he reminded himself that the others were gone to town—his brother Edgar, his sister-in-law, Kate, and their youngest daughter. No one would interrupt; no one would search him out and see his face. No, he wouldn’t read Josephine’s note again. Why subject himself?
And all the... time he was smoothing out the wrinkles on the table, pressing them vehemently with his fingers as he might press the lid of his piano just before opening it. Not that he’d open a piano now. People were always imagining pianists pounding out their anguish. Nothing here anyway but Kate’s absurd player piano with its punched paper roll and tinkling mechanical cylinder. She’d apologized when he first arrived, for she knew the thing must be a mockery to a real musician, and she was sorry, but Edgar had insisted they buy it.MoreLess
Ambrose picked up the crumpled page, smoothed it out on the round dining table, his gaze flickering toward the doors until he reminded himself that the others were gone to town—his brother Edgar, his sister-in-law, Kate, and their youngest daughter. No one would interrupt; no one would search him out and see his face. No, he wouldn’t read Josephine’s note again. Why subject himself?
And all the... time he was smoothing out the wrinkles on the table, pressing them vehemently with his fingers as he might press the lid of his piano just before opening it. Not that he’d open a piano now. People were always imagining pianists pounding out their anguish. Nothing here anyway but Kate’s absurd player piano with its punched paper roll and tinkling mechanical cylinder. She’d apologized when he first arrived, for she knew the thing must be a mockery to a real musician, and she was sorry, but Edgar had insisted they buy it.MoreLess
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