HER MOTHER’S HUSBAND
He sat down and he settled and he put the legal pad on his knee and he opened it to a page that was not the first page, the page he had apparently been working on before the walk through the corridor, and he looked at it.
I looked at my book.
The chapter.
I found my place — approximately three seconds to locate the paragraph, the last line I'd read before the footsteps, and I found it and my eyes moved to the next line.
The room.
The room was the room, which was: the library, Saturday evening, two lamps, the garden outside the windows in its night configuration, the fountain off, the security lights on the paths, the quiet of an estate at rest. The bookshelves. The carpet. The two chairs at
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