A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh & William Boyd

Author:Evelyn Waugh & William Boyd [Waugh, Evelyn & Boyd, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780375414206
Amazon: 0316926051
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 2002-04-09T05:00:00+00:00

After tea Mr. Tendril called. Tony saw him in his study and was away half an hour. When he returned he went to the tray, which, on Mrs. Rattery’s instructions, had been left in the library, and poured himself out whisky and ginger ale. Mrs. Rattery had resumed her patience. “Bad interview?” she asked without looking up.

“Awful.” He drank the whisky quickly and poured out some more.

“Bring me one too, will you?”

Tony. said, “I only wanted to see him about arrangements. He tried to be comforting. It was very painful ... after all the last thing one wants to talk about at a time like this is religion.”

“Some like it,” said Mrs. Rattery.

“Of course,” Tony began, after a pause, “when you haven’t got children yourself—”

“I’ve got two sons,” said Mrs. Rattery.

“Have you? I’m so sorry. I didn’t realize ... we know each other so little. How very impertinent of me.”

“That’s all right, People are always surprised. I don’t see them often. They’re at school somewhere. I took them to the cinema last summer. They’re getting quite big. [[119]] One’s going to be good looking I think. His father is.”

“Quarter past six,” said Tony. “He’s bound to have told her by now.”

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