He had really ugly feet. He was rather ruining the whole business of authorial genius for me. But he had the answers.
“Well, um,” I said, “first, we do want to say thank you for dinner last night and—”
“We bought them dinner last night?” Van Houten asked Lidewij.
“Yes, at Oranjee.” “Ah, yes. Well, believe me when I say that you do not have me to thank but rather Lidewij,
who is exceptionally talented in the field of spending my money.”
“It was our pleasure,” Lidewij said. “Well, thanks, at any rate,” Augustus said. I could hear annoyance in his voice.
“So here I am,” Van Houten said after a moment. “What are your questions?” “Um,” Augustus said.
“He seemed so intelligent in print,” Van Houten said to Lidewij regarding Augustus.
“Perhaps the cancer has established a beachhead in his brain.”
“Peter,” Lidewij said, duly horrified.
I was horrified, too, but there was something pleasant about a guy so despicable that he wouldn’t treat us deferentially.
“We do have some questions, actually,” I said. “I talked about them in my email. I don’t know if you remember.”
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