She looked at him as
he fingered a small switch on the side of the helicopter’s
door. She became aware of the modelling of his ear, of the
muscles of his neck and the textures of the hair that came off his brow, the soft
minute curve of eyelid that she could just see beyond his brow; she perceived all
these familiar objects as though they were acutely beautiful things. Even the light was different in
Athens, soft and golden, sweet as the morning dew
blessed by Athena herself. Like the nuns,
she hardly ever looked in a mirror. “Dear John,” she whispered. Briefly, with a careless wave towards the couple, the comtesse presented them
as Monsieur and Madame Valade. She
traced him by his scent. ”
“I resent!”
“I was only sorry I’d been so stupid. Every care had been taken of it, as well as of himself, by the humane
inmates of the house in which he had sought shelter.
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