Mad Men, Bad Girls by Maggie Groff

Author:Maggie Groff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Published: 2012-11-21T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 31

Marcia left at eight o’clock and Sam went to nap before the party, leaving instructions to wake him at ten. Chairman Meow followed Sam into the bedroom and I switched on the TV, fetched the key from my desk drawer in the study and undid the padlock on the large blue steamer trunk in front of the sofa.

The steamer trunk had been my grandfather’s when he was in the British Merchant Navy, many years ago. These days, it was the repository for all my Guerilla Knitters Institute paraphernalia, hence the padlock. I’d cunningly disguised it, with a coat of Wedgwood blue paint, as an unusual and interesting coffee table. If anyone ever asked about the padlock, I’d say that it was full of junk and I’d lost the key.

I took out my knitting and closed the trunk. There was one more purple rectangle of 60 × 10 cm to finish, and then we’d be right for tomorrow night’s mission.

At 10 pm I hid the finished knitted rectangle back in the trunk, locked it, put away the key and shook Sam awake.

‘Party time!’

I picked up Chairman Meow, carried him to the lounge and flicked through the channels searching for a show where people said nice things to each other. Silly me. Eventually I settled on a rerun of QI.

A short while later, Sam came into the lounge and stood in front of the television.

‘How do I look?’ he asked.

Sam was wearing black shorts, a black Che Guevara T-shirt and a large shark’s tooth on a leather thong around his neck. The simplicity of the outfit accentuated his abundant blond corkscrew curls.

‘Like a dangerous Shirley Temple,’ I said.

He frowned. ‘I look like a drink?’

Give me strength . . .

‘You look fine,’ I told him. ‘Will you be telling impressionable young females that you caught the shark yourself?’

Sam grinned. ‘Only the foreign ones.’ He kissed my cheeks and said he’d try not to disturb me when he came in.

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