Only one item of mail this morning. It appears to be a
card. In February? It is a card, a Valentine’s card. Who’d be sending
her a Valentine’s card? Married, on the cusp of middle-age, though that
threshold has of course not yet been crossed, no indeed.
She
opened it and read its one word: Mmm! Who on earth had written that? Had
she a secret admirer? Her husband, Steve, was away in London with senior
management. Did somebody know that and was taking advantage of his absence to
send her a little cheer-up? Perhaps it was more serious? Could there really be
somebody out there who’d noticed her? On the lip of middle-age? Sometimes, if
she were really honest, she felt a bit of a frump, she felt she was past her
sell-by-date, and sliding down a long bannister to oblivion.
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