The blunderer by Patricia Highsmith

Author:Patricia Highsmith [Highsmith, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New York : Penzler
Published: 1985-11-22T05:00:00+00:00

dog, don't you?' Walter asked. 'You think I'm a dog for sitting here and drinking to another woman when my wife's hardly buried, don't you ?'

'Snap out of it, Walter. Not 9

'And for sitting here telling you all about it tonight, don't you ?' Walter went on, talking with his head down. 'But I have to tell you that I adored Clara. I loved her more than any other woman in the world!'

'Walt, I know it.'

'You don't - know it enough. Nobody does.' Walter felt the glass snap in his hand. He looked at his own hand holding a curved shard between bleeding fingertips, and he dropped the fragment on the floor, too. 'You don't know,' Walter said. 'You don't know what it is.' He was thinking of the empty stairway, the empty bed upstairs, and Qara's bright scarves still in the closet on the top shelf. He was thinking of Jeff, waiting all day for her, all night. He was thinking even of her voice—'

Walter felt himself yanked to his feet. He realized Jon wanted him to go wash his hand, and he began to apologize. 'I'm sorry, Jon, I'm very sorry. It's not the drink—'

'You haven't had a drink!' Jon was pulling him up the stairs. 'Now you wash your hands and face and forget it.'

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