Graeme wondered Esmé fitted in. Although
Jason hadn’t mentioned it, it did rather look as if he were bisexual. In fact,
there was a sexual charge between all three of them: Jason, Esmé and Keith.
Jason and Keith were clearly lovers. They
had the body language. Comfortable in each other's space. But Keith and Esmé were also obviously
connected, too. Graeme thought back to
his own six years of marriage and wondered how these three would sort things
out among themselves. Some of the older
people he mixed with were always saying that the young were stuffy and
conservative, but these three seemed to be free spirits, unfazed by society’s
strictures and diktats.
And the two old ladies! What an amazing pair. So placidly revolutionary. What was it Dorothy Sayers said in one of her
novels? He grinned, remembering.
“Why are you smiling?” asked Eleanor,
unable to stop her own lips quirking up.
“Oh, I was thinking of what Dorothy
Sayers said. ‘You can tame an advanced
young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable.’[1] Something like that. It’s from ‘Clouds of Witness” I think.”
“Oh, I think women often change over
their life, you know. Because when we
are young we are constrained. We must behave, don’t you know. But as we get older, all those strictures and
customs come to seem merely silly. Sayers
also said:
‘As I
grow older and older,
And totter toward the tomb,
I find that I care less and less,
Who goes to bed with whom.’”
Graeme laughed.
“It’s easy to remember,” Eleanor said, smiling too,
“because it rhymes.”
Episodes 1 to 500 (without pictures, 20 episodes per chapter)
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