Jump and Other Stories by Gordimer Nadine

Author:Gordimer, Nadine [Gordimer, Nadine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1990-11-23T07:00:00+00:00

After three days, she telephoned the Institute just before noon.

—Where are you?—

—Here. Dudu’s head’s in my lap!—She was laughing.

He left at once, and again, as he put his key in the door it was opened from the inside. She held out her hands, palm up; he had to take them, and did so slowly. They went into the kitchen where he saw she had been eating bread and avocado, hungrily spreading crumbs, in her way. The dog was sniffing her over to sense where she had been and what she had done, and he, too, wanted and feared to get the scent of her betrayal.

She sat back in a kitchen chair and faced him.

—I’ve seen her. And I’ve got notes from Francie and Robbie, smuggled out. She’s all right. I knew you’d stop me if I told you I was going.—

She lifted her shoulders, shook her head, smiling, closing the subject.

Perhaps there was no lover? He saw it was true that she had left him, but it was for them, that house, the dark family of which he was not a member, her country to which he did not belong.

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