I was crying now—there was no avoiding it. “Raymond, you swine,” I said. “You’ve made my smoky eyes dissolve.”
I was quite annoyed when I said it, but then I started to giggle, and he laughed too.
He passed me one of the café’s inferior paper napkins and I wiped off the dark remnants.
“You look better without it,” he said. Afterward, we walked toward the point where we’d part in search of our respective bus stops.
“See you soon, then?” he said. “Oh, you’ll be seeing me sooner than you think!” I said, smiling at him.
“What do you mean?” He looked puzzled, and mildly amused. “It’s a surprise!”
I said, gesturing with my hands and shrugging extravagantly.
I’d never seen a magician perform onstage, but that was the look I was trying for. Raymond burst out laughing.
“I’ll look forward to it,” he said, still smiling as he fumbled in his pockets for his cigarettes.
I took my leave of him in a somewhat distracted frame of mind, my thoughts returning to Marianne and to Mummy.
I had work to do now. The past had been hiding from me—or I’d hidden from it—
and yet there it was, still, lurking in darkness. It was time to let in a little light. Back to work!
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