There was a young man—lean, dark, with the kind of restless hands that looked as though they were perpetually searching for something to break. He did not weep. He stared at the coffin with an expression of cold, scientific curiosity. Laura was fascinated.
The young man blinked. He was not accustomed to being liked at funerals. His name, it transpired, was Julian March, and by the time the last spadeful of earth had been thrown onto the general's coffin, he had agreed to walk Laura home. Egbert was horrified. laura by saki pdf
"You are not Shelley. You are a woman of thirty-four who collects mourning clothes like other women collect butterflies. This man will ruin you." There was a young man—lean, dark, with the
Julian looked at her with an expression she had never seen before—soft, almost tender. It was disgusting. Laura was fascinated
It was not, unfortunately, a question of whether Laura would attend the funeral; it was a question of how many funerals she would contrive to attend in the course of the week. Her obituaries, read with the thrilling detachment of a booking agent scanning racecards, had already yielded three promising prospects: a distant cousin who had left her a pug, a retired general whose liver had finally mutinied, and a wealthy philanthropist whose charities she had never patronized but whose buffet she had thoroughly admired.