Oliver's Story by Erich Segal

Author:Erich Segal
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: HarperCollins US
Published: 2011-11-29T18:02:52+00:00

In the mirror through the slightly opened portal I could see the bedroom.

Where a wagon entered.

Pushed by Mildred.

Cargo: breakfast.

By the time I’d wiped my face off, Marcie was at table—in a garment she did not intend to wear to work (I hope). I sat down clad in merely towel.

“Coffee, bacon, eggs?”

“Jesus, it’s a damn hotel!”

“Are you still complaining, Mr. Barrett?”

“No, it was fun,” I answered, buttering a muffin, “and I’d like to come again ’cause it was silly.” Then I paused. And told her, “In, like, thirty years.”

She looked perplexed.

“Marce,” I said, “this place is strictly for the paleologists. It’s full of sleeping dinosaurs.”

She looked at me.

“This isn’t what you really want,” I said.

Her face seemed sort of moved.

“I want to be with you,” she answered.

She wasn’t coy. Or full of metaphor, as I had been.

“Okay,” I said. To give me time to think of what to say.

“When would you like to go?” she asked.

“Today,” I answered.

Marcie wasn’t fazed.

“Just tell me when and where.”

“Let’s meet at five o’clock in Central Park. The East Side entrance to the reservoir.”

“What should I bring?” she asked.

“Your track shoes,” I replied.

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