Wish Her Safe At Home by Stephen Benatar

Author:Stephen Benatar
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781590173725
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2011-06-08T03:19:32.152000+00:00

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But that was for the future: that bleak annoyance or regret. For the time being I was still extremely positive; and what had made me especially happy was the way he suddenly seemed to cheer up. After he’d taken my key and opened the front door he stood facing me for a moment. A long moment. He had a hand on each of my arms and was looking at me as though in some strange way I was indeed a different woman.

“Rachel, you’ve been very sweet about all this. Shall I tell you something? I think perhaps I’ve been a little blind.”

“Really, Tony? In what way?”

“I’ve got to say you’re quite a girl!”

Even his kiss felt different.

“I’ll give you a ring tomorrow night,” he said.

“Really? So soon?” I was delighted. “Though haven’t you forgotten something? Tomorrow night you’ll be in Edinburgh.”

“Yet people tell me that, by now, the telephone may even have reached Scotland! Incredible, isn’t it? But if they’re right... yes, then, definitely tomorrow night!”

I had it ringing through my dreams: if they’re right, tomorrow night, if they’re right, tomorrow night. And the dreams I had during those very few hours’ sleep before my breakfast—I was called extremely early, as I now knew would always happen if I stayed out late with my “persistent young suitor”—those dreams were among the best I’d ever had.

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