The House in France by Gully Wells

Author:Gully Wells [Wells, Gully]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-59682-6
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2011-06-20T22:00:00+00:00

WHEN WE GOT BACK TO Oxford that fall, Martin moved with Adam and Kevin, another college friend, into a rose-covered cottage beside a trout-filled stream in a picturesque Cotswold village, about twenty-five miles outside Oxford. He had written to Jane earlier in the year, “The prices are around 12 pounds … I’m sharing with two other boys (I can’t look far enough ahead about Gully) so that’s about 4 pounds each on rent.” We had never talked about my joining them, so I stayed in Saint Hilda’s and went out to the Old Forge on the weekends and any night in the week when I didn’t have an early tutorial in the morning. But quite naturally I dreamed of the day when Martin would finally come to his senses and beg me to come and live with him. (Why is it that when girls fall in love their thoughts—almost inevitably and usually unwisely—become consumed with visions of geraniums on kitchen windowsills and gleaming copper pots and pans?) The house had two big bedrooms upstairs overlooking the garden and the babbling brook, and a small, dark airless one under the stairs. Since Martin and Adam obviously needed to entertain ladies in their rooms and Kevin had no girlfriend, it seemed only fair that he should live in the closet under the stairs. Or at least that’s what happened, and Kevin didn’t argue. In fact Adam no longer had any ladies to entertain because over the summer he had gotten married (how grown-up! well, not very, as it turned out) to a bossy, histrionic, but presumably sexy woman named Angela. It did not take long for the Old Forge to turn into a madhouse.

The insanity culminated in one unforgettable weekend. I guess drugs must have been involved, sex certainly was, and rock and roll was an entirely innocent bystander. It all started on the Friday when Kevin had become a tad agitated after he’d found some girl he was—unrequitedly and unrealistically—in love with in bed with Martin’s best friend, Rob. Here’s how Martin described what Kevin did next in a letter to Jane,

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