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Conversation: Chapter one. (1)
‘So you don't think she’ll mind?’ I asked again, coming back to the breakfast table with two stopping mugs of coffee. I handed him one.
‘Annabel, for the last time, I know she won’t mind.’ David reached for a piece of kitchen towel and carefully wiped the bottom of his mug before setting it down. ‘That house stands empty for months on end, for heaven's sake, except when she deigns to pop in for two weeks in September. She’ll be delighted to have the place occupied; she always is.'
'And you won't mind? I mean, us going?’ I perched on a chair opposite him in my threadbare blue dressing gown, cradled my mug in my hands and peered anxiously at him over his propped-up newspaper. ’You'll be here all on your own, David, for the whole summer. Well, most of it, anyway. Be awfully quiet.’
With a sigh, he folded The Times carefully into quarters, laid it aside and smiled. 'I’ll cope.’ He reached across my rickety old pine table, laid his immaculate Hilditch & Key shirt sleeve in the crumbs and detritus of breakfast and squeezed my arm.
'I've coped on my own for the last thirty-odd years. What makes you think I’ll forget how to boil a kettle now? Or go out with my underpants on back to front, perhaps? And with the best will in the world, Annie, it’s not as if your culinary skills are keeping me from wasting away, either. I think I’ll survive. Incidentally, speaking of things culinary, there is a terrible pong in this kitchen.’ He dropped my arm and sniffed the air cautiously. 'Emanating, I think, from those Waitrose curry cartons you so lovingly decanted our supper from last night. They’re not still lurking about somewhere, are they?' He looked around suspiciously.
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