The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark

Author:Muriel Spark [Spark, Muriel]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-09-19T21:09:01+00:00

MY DEAR RICKY,

I have been touring strenuously so haven’t had time to write properly. But now I want to write a decent letter and tell you, first of all —

VERY DEAR RICKY,

You will be happy to know I am hoping to marry Harry Clegg —the archaeologist whom I met last summer. We are very much in love. Much depends on the decision of the Church as to the annulment of his previous marriage, bu —

DEAR RICKY,

The heat, combined with strenuous —

I didn’t tell her, Barbara thought, because I intended to write.

And I haven’t written because I was afraid, and that’s the truth. It’s as if I were married to Ricky, only worse.

She thought, it’s the male element in Ricky that has attracted me. Then she imagined herself in bed with Ricky, in physical contact, shuddered a lot, and thought, I must get married, I really must. This is no good. She recalled the freedom of last summer, and longed for her humorous lover.

At all events, she thought, I must leave the school. Ricky has become over-familiar and I must leave the school. Immediately; not even a term’s notice; I must write and do that. This decision brought her immense relief. Barbara could not understand why she had not thought of anything so simple before. She had small private means and was not pressed to find another job immediately.

She sat up to the table and wrote:

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