Skin and Other Stories (Now in Speak!) by Dahl Roald

Author:Dahl, Roald [Dahl, Roald]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781101636305
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2013-05-29T16:00:00+00:00

Outside in the High, Robert Sandy mounted his bicycle and headed for home. He was feeling totally light-headed. It was as though he had just finished a whole bottle of good wine all by himself. Here he was, solid old Robert Sandy, sedate and sensible, cycling through the streets of Oxford with more than half a million dollars in the pocket of his old tweed jacket! It was madness. But it was true.

He arrived back at his house in Acacia Road at about half past four and parked his bike in the garage alongside the car. Suddenly he found himself running along the little concrete path that led to the front door. “Now stop that!” he said aloud, pulling up short. “Calm down. You’ve got to make this really good for Betty. Unfold it slowly.” But oh, he simply could not wait to give the news to his lovely wife and watch her face as he told her the whole story of his afternoon. He found her in the kitchen packing some jars of homemade jam into a basket.

“Robert!” she cried, delighted as always to see him. “You’re home early! How nice!”

He kissed her and said, “I am a bit early, aren’t I?”

“You haven’t forgotten we’re going to the Renshaws for the weekend? We have to leave fairly soon.”

“I had forgotten,” he said. “Or maybe I hadn’t. Perhaps that’s why I’m home early.”

“I thought I’d take Margaret some jam.”

“Good,” he said. “Very good. You take her some jam. That’s a very good idea to take Margaret some jam.”

There was something in the way he was acting that made her swing round and stare at him. “Robert,” she said, “what’s happened? There’s something the matter.”

“Pour us each a drink,” he said. “I’ve got a bit of news for you.”

“Oh darling, it’s not something awful, is it?”

“No,” he said. “It’s something funny. I think you’ll like it.”

“You’ve been made Head of Surgery!”

“It’s funnier than that,” he said. “Go on, make a good stiff drink for each of us and sit down and I’ll tell you.”

“It’s a bit early for drinks,” she said, but she got the ice tray from the fridge and started making his whiskey and soda. While she was doing this, she kept glancing up at him nervously. She said, “I don’t think I’ve ever seen you quite like this before. You are wildly excited about something and you are pretending to be very calm. You’re all red in the face. Are you sure it’s good news?”

“I think it is,” he said, “but I’ll let you judge that for yourself.” He sat down at the kitchen table and watched her as she put the glass of whiskey in front of him.

“All right,” she said. “Come on. Let’s have it.”

“Get a drink for yourself first,” he said.

“My goodness, what is this?” she said, but she poured some gin into a glass and was reaching for the ice tray when he said, “More than that. Give yourself a good stiff one.”

“Now I

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