"Richard Wadholm - From Here You Can See The Sunquists" - читать интересную книгу автора (Wadholm Richard)

"And, of course, you couldn't go back in the bar? "



"Roger Swann was in there."



Mr. Sunquist found himself roaring. Mrs. Sunquist hushed him; she was a shy person by
nature, and people might be listening. That made him laugh even harder.



The couple in the next car turned to see what was funny, but he didn't care. He knew
these people well enough, he had nothing to prove to them.



They would be a couple in their thirties. They would be having a conversation very much
like this one. A little breathless, the woman hints to her husband how these past fifteen
years are as much a product of bladder control as love.



Perhaps she intends a joke. Perhaps an insult. Things are not so good between the man
and the woman at this point in their marriage. The woman realizes this too late, and
starts to back up and stammer.



To himself, the man thinks...



"Romance is one of those things that doesn't really work as a first-hand experience. Why
we come back here every year, I imagine."



"What?" Mrs. Sunquist looked up at him. "You must have heard that somewhere."



It was not an especially generous thought, Mr. Sunquist realized. He was a little
surprised he had said it out loud. More surprised how much he believed it to be true.