What he saw crouched back against the all in a
dusty shaft of sunlight was not a rat but a great big black cat with the
bushiest tail he had ever seen.
but the shirt looked as if Ian had been wearing it for at least three years, and Geoffrey felt as if at least three hundred had passed since the party.
He felt a flush of shame and humiliation warming his face, but now they were mixed with real anger: it had bloomed from a spark into a tiny sunken flame.
It would be nice to believe he had performed heroically, but he supposed it was only that escape thing again, because the pain had been really dreadful.
but the shirt looked as if Ian had been wearing it for at least three years, and Geoffrey felt as if at least three hundred had passed since the party.
He felt a flush of shame and humiliation warming his face, but now they were mixed with real anger: it had bloomed from a spark into a tiny sunken flame.
It would be nice to believe he had performed heroically, but he supposed it was only that escape thing again, because the pain had been really dreadful.
What he saw crouched back against the all in a dusty shaft of sunlight
was not a rat but a great big black cat with the bushiest tail he had ever
seen.
but the shirt looked as if Ian had been wearing it for at least three years, and Geoffrey felt as if at least three hundred had passed since the party.
He felt a flush of shame and humiliation warming his face, but now they were mixed with real anger: it had bloomed from a spark into a tiny sunken flame.
It would be nice to believe he had performed heroically, but he supposed it was only that escape thing again, because the pain had been really dreadful.
but the shirt looked as if Ian had been wearing it for at least three years, and Geoffrey felt as if at least three hundred had passed since the party.
He felt a flush of shame and humiliation warming his face, but now they were mixed with real anger: it had bloomed from a spark into a tiny sunken flame.
It would be nice to believe he had performed heroically, but he supposed it was only that escape thing again, because the pain had been really dreadful.