My husband and I weren\u2019t in when he brought the music. He had a chat with our youngest daughter instead. She told me she had found him very shy and that she didn\u2019t like him. Not much later she came again saying she had been telling a lie and really she liked him very much, but was worried I might pass this on to him next time I saw him.<\/p>\n
I saw him again at the concert and we talked during the interval. My husband was away at the time and his wife was busy with other people. We paid one another compliments on being tanned and discussed our respective holidays. Then he told me he had enjoyed reading my \u201cbrilliant notes\u201d, I obviously had a gift for that. I asked him had they made him laugh. He said \u201cyes\u201d and I had the impression it was a little half-hearted. He managed to think of a book and a tape I might be interested in and promised to let me have them. When, I asked. He suggested the weekend, but I was busy with other things. How about Monday night? He seemed hesitant. I told him he didn\u2019t have to commit himself. \u201cI will drop them in,\u201d he said. I promised literature about a famous place in return \u2013 he and his wife were planning to go there.<\/p>\n
As expected I haven\u2019t seen him since. I have passed my travel books on to his wife, though. She was grateful.<\/p>\n
A few days later Paul was given tickets for a box in a large concert hall. I heard this from his wife who rang me up to offer me one of them. Two had gone to Aldous and his wife. She was sorry about not having one for my husband who might not be back from work in time anyway. I was not tempted at all. I dislike going into town and had also been doing gymnastics of some kind, following a dear friend\u2019s advice. Therefore I hid behind my husband saying I wouldn\u2019t want to leave him alone, it was depressing coming into an empty house and I had to cheer him up since he was having problems at work. Paul\u2019s wife thought my husband would be cross with me for declining an invitation of that kind. As it turned out, he wasn\u2019t. \u201cWhat would Paul\u2019s wife have done in your place,\u201d he wondered. I boldly suggested \u201clet\u2019s see who has the best wife!\u201d He looked at me sideways: \u201cFor a change\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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