The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

Author:Ira Levin [Levin, Ira]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
ISBN: 978-0-06-203760-2
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2000-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

Walter saw something was bothering her and asked her about it. She said, “You’ve got the Koblenz agreement to do,” but he said, “I’ve got all weekend. Come on, what is it?”

So while she scraped the dishes and put them in the washer, she told him about Bobbie’s wanting to move, and her “El Paso” theory.

“That sounds pretty far-fetched to me,” he said.

“To me too,” she said. “But women do seem to change around here, and what they change into is pretty damn dull. If Bobbie moves, and if Charmaine doesn’t come back to her old self, which at least was—”

“Do you want to move?” he asked.

She looked uncertainly at him. His blue eyes, waiting for her answer, gave no clue to his feelings. “No,” she said, “not when we’re all settled in. It’s a good house … And yes, I’m sure I’d be happier in Eastbridge or Norwood. I wish we’d looked in either one of them.”

“There’s an unequivocal answer,” he said, smiling. “‘No and yes.’”

“About sixty-forty,” she said.

He straightened from the counter he had been leaning against. “All right,” he said, “if it gets to be zero-a hundred, we’ll do it.”

“You would?” she said.

“Sure,” he said, “if you were really unhappy. I wouldn’t want to do it during the school year—”

“No, no, of course not.”

“But we could do it next summer. I don’t think we’d lose anything, except the time and the moving and closing costs.”

“That’s what Bobbie said.”

“So it’s just a matter of making up your mind.” He looked at his watch and went out of the kitchen.

“Walter?” she called, touching her hands to a towel.

“Yes?”

She went to where she could see him, standing in the hallway. “Thanks,” she said, smiling. “I feel better.”

“You’re the one who has to be here all day, not me,” he said, and smiled at her and went into the den.

She watched him go, then turned and glanced through the port to the family room. Pete and Kim sat on the floor watching TV—President Kennedy and President Johnson, surprisingly; no, figures of them. She watched for a moment, and went back to the sink and scraped the last few dishes.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.