her companionship in silence. Yes, that was
it--companionship. He caught at the word. "That is what I have been
unconsciously needing all along. I flattered myself that I was
luxuriating in the very absence of it. But man is a gregarious animal,
and I was deceived." So he could refer the effect of her propinquity to
the mere gregarious instinct, not suspecting that a more powerful
instinct was already awake. Anyhow, his sense of that propinquity,--his
consciousness of her, gracefully moving beside him in the sweet weather,
while her summery garments fluttered, and some strange, faint, elusive
perfume was shaken from them,--filled him with a satisfaction that for
the moment seemed ultimate. He had no wish to talk. Their progress side
by side was a conversation without words. They were getting to know each
other, they were breaking the ice. Each step they took was as good as a
spoken sentence, was a mutual experience, drawing them closer, helping
to an understanding. They walked slowly, as by a tacit agreement.
Silence, however, couldn't in the nature of things last for ever. It was
she who presently broke it.
"I owe you," she said, in her ivory voice, with her clean-cut
enunciation, "a debt of thanks." And still again she smiled, as she
looked over towards him, her dark eyes glowing, her dark hair richly
drooping, in the shadow of a big hat of wine-coloured straw.
John's eyes were at a loss. "Oh--?" he wondered.
"For a pleasure given me by our friend Annunziata," she explained. "This
morning she told me a most interesting parable about Death. And she
mentioned that it was you who had suggested to her to tell it me."
"Oh," said John, laughing, while the pink of his skin deepened a shade.
"She mentioned that, did she? I'm glad if you don't feel that I took a
good deal upon myself. But she had just told the same parable to me, and
it seemed a pity it shouldn't have a larger audience."
Then, after a few more paces taken again in silence, "What a marvellous
little person she i
Notka biograficzna
Helen Fraser (born Oldham, Lancashire 1942) is an English actress, a familiar face in many television comedies and dramas from the 1960s to the present. She is best known to television viewers for her long-running role in the ITV womens prison drama Bad Girls as unpleasant warder Sylvia Bodybag Hollamby from the very first episode in 1999 to the very last in 2006. She played the same role in the West End production of Bad Girls: The Musical in 2007.
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