The Empty Copper Sea by John D. MacDonald

Author:John D. MacDonald [MacDonald, John D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-82678-7
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2013-01-08T16:00:00+00:00

It was almost four fifteen on Saturday afternoon when we headed back toward Timber Bay.

Meyer said, “I haven’t heard that infuriatingly tuneless whistling of yours for a long, long time. Congratulations.”

“On what?”

“On coming back to the land of the living.”

“It shows? I was that bad?”

“You were that bad, and for a long time. You were, in fact, committing the eighth deadly sin.”

“I was? What is that?”

“You were boring, Travis. Very boring.”

“Oh?”

“Self-involved people are always boring. Nobody can ever be as interested in them as they are in themselves.”

“Sorry about that.”

“You probably couldn’t help it. It’s been coming on since before we went up to Bayside that time.”

“If I’ve been so depressing, why didn’t you just bug off?”

“There was always the chance you’d come out of it.”

“I feel as if I had.”

“She seems to be an exceptional person.”

“Gretel? Yes. Yes, she is. I like these dunes. They give it a nice wild unspoiled look. We’ll have to cruise this coast sometime. Maybe head north from here.”

“What are you smiling at?”

“Me? Was I smiling?”

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