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The Fivehundredandsixtyeighth
Next morning, feeling frowzy and rather
sluttish, Jessie forced herself to wash the stemware from the
previous night, thinking it best to be politic and say nothing which
might upset her husband, though the thought did enter her head that
her question, if put carefully and obliquely, might elicit an answer;
but she pushed that aside, thinking that she must surely be mistaken,
it must have been the drink, her own muddle-headed confusion, though
she was sure of the words Hamish had muttered in his sleep: "Nein,
nein, Adolf, ich habe dich nicht verlassen,
Heil Hitler!" and then he had rolled over and sunk back into
a rhythmic snoring; she took a swig of gin, straight from the bottle
– this wasn't a time for niceties and lit one of his cigarettes
(she had been secretly swiping the odd one or two while he slept and
had built up a sizeable cache – he had never approved of women
smoking, though it didn't stop him smoking in her company) blowing a
perfect circle towards the ceiling rose, and decided: she would have
to speak to someone, she needed advice and there was only one person
she could turn to!
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