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Yes, I’ve known it for weeks. ’ ‘It s not as bad as that. ’ ‘Mrs Castle’s on our side. She’s furious. She says everyone’s talking about it and saying things. ’ ‘I was so upset I came out of Mass before the end. It’s so mean of them, Ticki. You can’t take it lying down. ’ ‘Yes, I do. ’ He sat down on the bed and put his hand under the net and touched hers. Little beads of sweat started where their skins touched. He said, ‘I do think of you, dear. But I’ve been fifteen years in this place. I’d be lost anywhere else, even if they gave me another job.
She was awake. He put his hand up and touched the hot moist hair: she lay stiffly, as though she were guarding a secret. Sick at heart, knowing what he would find, he moved his fingers down until they touched her lids. She was crying. He felt an enormous tiredness, bracing himself to comfort her. ’ It was how he always began. Comfort, like the act of sex, developed a routine. ’ It was how she always answered. He blamed himself for being heartless because the idea occurred to him that it was two o’clock: this might go on for hours, and at six the day’s work began.
He stood quietly for a while breathing in the heavy smell of the sea. Within half a mile of him a whole convoy lay at anchor, but all he could detect were the long shadow of the depot ship and a scatter of small red lights as though a street were up: he could hear nothing from the water but the water itself, slapping against the jetties. The magic of this place never failed him: here he kept his foothold on the very edge of a strange continent. Somewhere in the darkness two rats scuffled. These waterside rats were the size of rabbits.