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A Short Holiday
Angela R. Herbert
其他書名
A Collection of Short Stories
出版Angela Herbert, 2006
主題Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
ISBN09772339019780977233908
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7QuAHmVE8KUC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Nelson Tremaine arrived in Georgetown exactly two weeks after he had asked Mrs. Fountain whether he could visit her sometime in the future for a short holiday. At the time of the request, Nelson and Mrs. Fountain had been attending a church convention in Rose Hall, St. Vincent. Mrs. Fountain's response -- that it was all right for him to visit for a short while provided that he gave her a reasonable amount of notice -- had been uttered quite absent-mindedly and innocently. After all, she was in church at the time, where all things muttered offhand or in jest or without real seriousness are forgiven -- or should be, in any event, she had assumed that 'sometime in the future' was at least six months away. You could therefore imagine her consternation when, two weeks later, as she was taking some dirty clothing downstairs to wash, she found Nelson Tremaine puffing and panting his way up the moss-blackened steps with a huge cardboard box on his head and a tiny suitcase in one hand.