The Wicked Wood by Isobelle Carmody

Author:Isobelle Carmody
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd
Published: 2011-10-31T13:00:00+00:00

She spotted the green vase as she was on her way from the bank to the store. It was in the window of the gallery cum antique shop, alongside a set of cream-and-green canisters, some old green enamel bowls, and a couple of lime-green linen tea towels. Greer was shocked by the price tag.

At home, she walked into her parents’ old room and placed the vase on the dressing table beside his paints. ‘I found the vase, Otto.’

He glanced up, then bent over his painting, concentrating on a detail, ignoring her.

‘Warze?’

‘This vase. It was not yours to sell.’

‘Still so worried about your china cabinet?’

‘It’s been in my family for—’

‘I needed paints. Until my show I cannot pay.’ He sounded furious.

‘If you need money you only have to ask—’ She heard herself placating him, reassuring him.

‘I do not like to beg.’ He jammed his brush in the preser- ving jar of turps she had given him and washed it thoroughly.

‘It’s not begging. Otto, you know I begrudge you nothing.’

‘But you begrudge me this ugly old warze.’

‘No, I—’

‘This is bourgeois bullshit, Greer. I have told you.’

‘But it was my mother’s.’

‘Do not speak to me of mothers,’ he hissed.

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