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5) Old places and faces
Jack Garratt, old friend, with his fiancée. The B.U. offices – just the same as in his time. Wolfhampcote in its green fields. He had a drink at the Castle Inn, where he used to fetch the papers from. He went to Daventry and had a hair cut at the same shop. Nothing has changed. Except the old house, with it’s trees felled and lopped; it looked tired and deserted. A sweet tune haunted him from a piece called “Lady of the Rose.”
He returned to Staines on a hot afternoon. Somewhere in Bucks. On the way, he had a delightful lunch at a wayside inn. Followed a lorry out of Aylesbury and went through Amersham. Peaceful green country of ? Then, suddenly, suburbia! Filling stations, ice-cream carts, hikers, traffic, cycling clubs, nasty little suburban houses… The people of suburbia… He knew he was returned and the holiday over!
Jack Garratt, old friend, with his fiancée. The B.U. offices – just the same as in his time. Wolfhampcote in its green fields. He had a drink at the Castle Inn, where he used to fetch the papers from. He went to Daventry and had a hair cut at the same shop. Nothing has changed. Except the old house, with it’s trees felled and lopped; it looked tired and deserted. A sweet tune haunted him from a piece called “Lady of the Rose.”
He returned to Staines on a hot afternoon. Somewhere in Bucks. On the way, he had a delightful lunch at a wayside inn. Followed a lorry out of Aylesbury and went through Amersham. Peaceful green country of ? Then, suddenly, suburbia! Filling stations, ice-cream carts, hikers, traffic, cycling clubs, nasty little suburban houses… The people of suburbia… He knew he was returned and the holiday over!
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