Might next week be suitable for you to effect a change of hairstyle?
She picked up her phone from a console table and tapped away. “How’s Tuesday at three?” she said.
We were allocated twenty-five days of annual leave, and I had used three —a recovery day after painful root canal work,
one of my biannual daytime Social Work visits, and an extra day I’d added onto a bank holiday weekend
in order to allow me to finish a particularly lengthy but thrilling volume on the history of ancient Rome without interruption.
Tuesday would be splendid,I said.
She shimmered off toward the kitchen, and reappeared with a tray of malodorous, warm snacks which she passed around the room.
The space had filled up with people, and the overall volume level was very loud.
I stood for several minutes examining the bibelots and objets which she had artfully placed around the room.
More from boredom than necessity, I went to use the bathroom, a tiny cloakroom under the stairs which was also shiny and warm,
gleaming white and scented, improbably, with figsthe smell, I eventually realized,
emanating from a lit candle in a glass jar on the shelf below the mirror.
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