Two by Anonymous
Author:Anonymous
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: [No data]
Published: 1982-11-08T05:00:00+00:00
The Two:
Thursday morning it was raining.
It made her fretful. She was reluctant, anyway, to go to her lover today; last night Hale had desired sex, and it did not seem right to be with two men within such a short span of time. She had accepted that sooner or later it would have to happen . . . but not so soon.
It had not bothered her nearly so much to go from lover to husband, as from husband to lover, and that didn’t make sense, either.
With tomorrow in her mind, she had endured Hale—yet, in fear of overreacting, she had held tomorrow at bay. So, this morning, she experienced a strong sense of relief as she waited for his telephone call canceling their assignation.
An unsatisfactory sort of rain, as doubtful and unstable as her mind. At nine o’clock the skies were overcast, the rain coming down with an all-day steadiness; by ten, only showers, far more typical of spring weather, with patches of blue sky showing. Still the telephone did not ring, and by eleven another freshet had settled in.
She wandered about the house, unable to settle down to wifely tasks. I’m not cut out for this sort of intrigue, she thought, rueful of the comfortable life she had known for so many easy years.
To cap the irritation of her restlessness, Rosemary arrived for coffee, saying cheerfully that she couldn’t stand the kids for another minute without some adult conversation, not on a rainy day like this, and there might be a phone call for her while she was here, she hoped she wouldn’t mind.
The sight of her best friend reminded her forcibly of the revelation of last week’s cookout. She felt an impulse to confide in Rosemary about her Adventure, simply to see if Rosemary would reciprocate. Firmly she suppressed the dangerous idea and went into the kitchen to make coffee, Rosemary remained comfortably seated on the sofa, lifting her voice to carry on the chatter that she called conversation.
“I wish I’d enrolled the kids in summer camp, like you did. But we decided to save the money for a Caribbean cruise, instead of our usual mountain vacation. They are driving me crazy. He doesn’t have to put up with them the livelong day like I do.”
The phone rang. Before she could react, Rosemary had snatched up the living-room extension. She stood frozen in the kitchen doorway, positive it was him calling. How in the world could she explain a phone call from a strange man?
“Oh, hi!” Rosemary said blithely, then, unnecessarily, to her, “It’s for me.” She listened for a long minute, nodding in unconscious agreement. “Why, yes, I think I could manage that,” she said enthusiastically. “I’d be delighted, as a matter of fact.” Rosemary was still watching her in the doorway as she added in a sharper tone, “Well, OK, count on it, then,” and hung up.
She brought the coffee. As Rosemary added Sweet’n’Low, she said casually, “Old Miss Murphy has been after me for weeks to tend a booth at the charity dog show.
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