Mr. Dalloway by Robin Lippincott

Author:Robin Lippincott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 2012-03-08T00:00:00+00:00

WHAT WAS RICHARD, her husband of thirty years, doing at that very moment, Clarissa wondered somewhat giddily, for it wouldn’t take him half as long to ready himself as it would her and Elizabeth to prepare themselves (which reminded her: she must check on Elizabeth). He still had time. And he wasn’t sleeping, for she had heard him moving about. He’s probably reading history, she thought. (She could picture him sitting there, or moving about the room, walking back and forth as he sometimes did when he read.) Reading history or recording it—for he was writing a history of Lady Bruton’s family (Lady Bruton, who did not like her). History, she thought now, doing up her hair. People were her game. So Richard’s game was history; hers was people. And Elizabeth’s? Oh dear: Elizabeth’s was animals! But just as her spirits began to flag she saw a bit of her dress reflected in the looking-glass. A flash of white lace (and her hair, too, was white). But she resisted; she didn’t want to look at herself; she did not want to see herself in the looking-glass until she had it all assembled and had collected herself, so that her entire countenance and dress, the person she would present that night at the party, Mrs. Richard Dalloway of thirty years, Clarissa Dalloway, Elizabeth’s mother (and so many more selves, she thought now), was whole. She had not called Ellie Henderson to invite her to the party, nor would she, she decided as she placed her hat on the bed, then her gloves (a glimpse of pink, matching her face). She would not, at the last minute, not this time, invite Ellie Henderson; and that was her victory!

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