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bonnet and seats.
'Were you badly hurt?' she asked. 'I think we saw each other at the
hospital.'
I found it impossible to say anything to heraware of the almost
obsessive way in which she brushed her hair across her cheek. Her
strong bodywith its nervous sexualityformed a powerful junction with
the dented and mud-stained car.
'I don't want the car' she said. 'In factI was appalled to find that
I have to pay a small fee to have it scrapped.'
She hung around the carwatching me with a mixture of hostility
and interestas if admitting that her motives for coming to the pound
were as ambiguous as my own. I sensed that in her refined and matter-
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of-fact way she was already trying out the possibilities I had opened for
herexamining this instrument of a perverse technology which had
killed her husband and closed the principal avenue of her life.
I offered her a lift to her surgery.
'Thanks.' She walked ahead of me. 'To the airportif you could.'
'The airport?' I had an odd feeling of loss. 'Why - are you leaving?'
'Not yet - though not soon enough for some peopleI've already
found.' She took off her sunglasses and gave me a bleak smile. 'A death
in the doctor's family makes the patients doubly uneasy.'
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