Tigerlily's Orchids by Rendell Ruth

Author:Rendell, Ruth [Rendell, Ruth]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Published: 2010-03-17T04:00:00+00:00

She must learn to make it last. Olwen knew this. She knew her plans and dreams to drink as much as she wanted and whenever she wanted were doomed to failure. Only a wealthy person could do that. A rich woman would have servants who asked no questions, who had the use of a car, who would buy what her employer wanted by the crate or simply order it on the phone. You could probably buy it online, she thought, though what she knew of the Internet was fast receding out of her fuddled brain. As for her, when she started on this strange enterprise of hers – she knew how strange it was – she hadn’t calculated that she might lose the ability to buy drink herself, simply to walk out of the place and buy what she wanted. And she hadn’t counted on the recession closing wine shops nearby. How long, for instance, would Mr Ali last?

Meanwhile, Sophie Longwich had brought her the bottle of gin and the one of vodka and returned her card. What she had forgotten to ask for was a receipt from the cash machine. Sophie called it a ‘hole in the wall’ and had said nothing about a receipt, which probably meant she hadn’t one. Olwen worried a bit about Sophie having her pin number, but when she had twice filled a tumbler with gin and drunk it down, she worried less. Nor did she worry too much about what she had resolved the previous evening: to reduce her alcohol consumption by a half. That would be bearable, wouldn’t it? She could manage that. Tonight, though, she would drink what she wanted and think about economy tomorrow.

Tomorrow is another day. She vaguely recalled Scarlett O’Hara saying that from the days, now long gone, when she read books and watched films. I’ll worry about it tomorrow, for tomorrow is another day.

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