Windfallen
““I like it like that,” said Stephen Meeker as they looked out the window at the unobstructed view of the shore. “People don’t have an excuse to just pop in. I do hate it when people feel they can just pop in. It’s as if, when you’re retired, you should be grateful for any interruption in your dreary old day.”
They sat over two mugs of tea in the sparsely decorated living room, the walls of which were hung with paintings of a quality completely at odds with the furniture and upholstery around th...em. Outside, the sea, glinting under an August sky, was unpopulated, the families and holidaymakers tending to stay up the coast in Merham’s sandier stretch of water. It was the second time in a week that Daisy had interrupted his dreary old day, but she had been welcomed, partly for the selection of magazines she’d brought him as a gift and partly because the time she wanted to talk about was one of the few periods of his life, he said, during which he’d been truly happy. “Julian was rather a lot of fun, you see,”MoreLess
They sat over two mugs of tea in the sparsely decorated living room, the walls of which were hung with paintings of a quality completely at odds with the furniture and upholstery around th...em. Outside, the sea, glinting under an August sky, was unpopulated, the families and holidaymakers tending to stay up the coast in Merham’s sandier stretch of water. It was the second time in a week that Daisy had interrupted his dreary old day, but she had been welcomed, partly for the selection of magazines she’d brought him as a gift and partly because the time she wanted to talk about was one of the few periods of his life, he said, during which he’d been truly happy. “Julian was rather a lot of fun, you see,”MoreLess
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