Towards Another Summer by Janet Frame

Author:Janet Frame
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Published: 2010-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

15

They drank their coffee. It was almost three o’clock. The day was darkening swiftly and already the frost was pressing its sucker-fingers upon the windowpanes. After-dinner comfort could not erode the determination of Philip and Anne to carry out their promise to show Grace Winchley and to change Sarah’s library book.

—You don’t mind going to Winchley?

—I think it will be very pleasant.

(After all, Grace thought, they may be longing to go to Winchley.)

—We’ll have to hurry. The market closes early. We wanted to show you the market. And there’s Sarah’s library book. You’re sure you’d like to go?

Do they mean me to say Yes or No, Grace wondered. I have no social intuition. I’m not used to dancing around invitations simply to make a pretty pattern of No’s and Yes’s. I’d like to go to Winchley. But the day’s grown colder and darker and we’ve just had a meal and everyone’s feeling lazy; but they’ve promised, and they can’t go back on their promise and - who knows? - extraordinary pleasures may be waiting in Winchley.

Grace joined in the general excitement of people getting ready for an expedition. While Anne dressed the children and Philip found his coat Grace went upstairs for her boots, coat and headscarf, and when she came down to the kitchen everyone was waiting ready to burst from the door in excitement.

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