Sunny Garden

The next day I play it safe. I'm too fragile for this.
    I only leave the office for lunch when I've arranged to meet Jeff and we can sit back in the usual place at the big window, with most nearby young females safely on the other side of the glass. (p. 87)

    On the way home, driving through rain, I see a woman with a cello, struggling along, getting wet. She's wearing a grey plastic raincoat and it's flapping around, doing nothing.
    I turn off Waterworks Road and circle back, but the traffic's not easy and when I get there she's gone. Maybe she caught a bus or a cab, maybe someone else stopped to pick her up, maybe she lives somewhere on this stretch of the road. I drive on home. (p. 117)

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