By Julian Barnes
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When they caught up with it, he bent down and took off his brown-and-white co-respondent shoes. He laid the loose ends of the laces in a cross on the middle of the inner sole, looked at her and nodded. She took off her black walking shoes and did the same. She watched as, with a comic formality, he worked first his toes, then the rest of his feet, back into his shoes. She did the same; he winked, bent down on one knee like a suitor, patted her calf and slowly tugged both laces out from the soft underside of her left foot.
Well, there was no hope for that now; she was far too square-jawed. If only these bits of her face would start looking as if they belonged together. Oh, do get on with it, she sometimes whispered at the mirror. ” I’ll do, she thought. My parents think I’ll do. But would anybody else? She missed Uncle Leslie. They weren’t allowed to talk about him nowadays, but she often thought of him; he had always been on her side. ” It had seemed natural to ask, natural to assume that he would be more likely to know than she.
It’s an aero-plane. Aeroplane. ” “Yes,” she replied. He might as well have slapped her. Aeroplane, aeroplane, aeroplane. Eventually, Prosser gave a short cough, the noise of one moving from anger or embarrassment to some other focus of emotion. “I’ll tell you the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen,” he said in a tense, almost grumpy voice. Jean, half expecting some arch compliment, kept her head ducked down. She still hadn’t eaten her other piece of sandwich. “I was on night ops. In the summer—June.