She taught him how to sail a proa, how to hack open a
milk-coconut, how to relish bamboo sprouts. “The truth!” It was a moment of awkwardness between the two sisters
—a moment, too, charged with its own psychological interest, for there were
secrets between them which for many months had made their intercourse a
constrained and difficult thing. ’
‘What of your grandfather?’
Her lips parted in surprise. A small brickbat was thrown, which struck Jonathan in the
face. But the
restraint exercised by her instinctive delicacy was very great; over and above
coarse or sexual matters it covered religion and politics and any mention of
money matters or crime, and Ann Veronica found herself wondering whether
these exclusions represented, after all, anything more than suppressions. Lucy sat in the back seat as the
trio sped through intersections in the old sedan. “That’s suicidal bullshit, Lucy. He stopped on the curb-stone, not facing her
but as if he was on his way to cross the road, and spoke to her suddenly over his
shoulder. So far she had the
utmost difficulty in getting on to that vitally important matter. “The young women of Jane Austen’s time didn’t get into this sort of scrape!
At least—one thinks so. You will make her suffer. In this state it would have been all over with him, as, being stunned by the
fall, it was some moments before he could recover himself, if another party had
not unexpectedly come to his rescue.
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