Garbo Laughs by Elizabeth Hay

Author:Elizabeth Hay [Hay, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literary, Fiction, General, Humorous
ISBN: 9781551994321
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2003-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

25

Jealousy

That night Harriet dreamt she was walking with Chevy Chase down a wide sidewalk in Paris. She kissed him and left black lint on his lips. They were going to the Oscars. But when she looked more closely he wasn’t wearing a tuxedo, but rather a black and silver vest. She had been wrong about their destination. Lew stirred beside her and she told him her dream, and he responded by telling her his. “I was in Paris too, working on some newsletter or magazine. I was in my twenties. We all were. In the office I had my eye on a woman and hoped we would find ourselves alone. And suddenly we did. I was in bed and she got into bed with me.”

“What did she look like?”

“Short. With curly hair and a wide face.”

“That sounds like Dinah,” she said. “But I’m not worried.” Then she wondered why she had bothered to say that, even jokingly.

It was early Wednesday morning, barely light. She turned on the radio beside their bed, thrilled to discover that they still had power, and kept the volume low since no one else seemed to be up. The announcer said another wave of freezing rain was on its way, and went on to report about broken hydro lines and thousands of people without electricity. Lew was lying beside her, eyes closed, but awake. She said, “How old do I look?”

“Your age,” he said, without opening his eyes.

When he regained consciousness, she was saying, “Seriously, I want to know. What do you like about the way I look?”

“Let me see.” He sat up and turned her face towards him and studied it for a while. “Your eyebrows,” he said, and she dissolved in laughter.

Afterwards, stretched out beside each other with a towel covering the wet spot, she said, “I do like a laugh.” But then she heard Leah moving about downstairs and moaned aloud.

Lew said, “I like what Groucho said.”

“What did Groucho say?”

“Time wounds all heels.”

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