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bookmaker_boss) wrote2019-01-01 09:58 pm
bookmaker_boss) wrote2019-01-01 09:58 pm
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Maybe we make a deal, maybe together we can get somewhere [for Nina]
After Christmas and the New Year, Thomas takes Guy's chatty advice and looks into renting a motor car. The modern things are sleek, ridiculous things. They make him miss his long-lined Aston Martin and Rolls Royce, but they are remarkable little American--or Darrow-merican, he supposes--machines.
The car lot is a curious place. The men working there gaze at Thomas suspiciously, but he's quite used to that. He remembers returning from the war and buying his first one with Arthur and John, the looks from those men selling the cars, their suspicion as these war-rough Gypsy boys had caroused about the fine machines. The suspicion on the sellers' faces is not so dissimilar today as it was then.
When it comes to it, he drives off the lot with the agreement to bring the car back in one piece. He drives off the lot, and nearly as soon as he's away, he lets the engine purr through its paces.
When he pulls up outside Candlewood, he feels a little silly. It's hardly the first time he's come calling on a woman, but it has been a while. He approaches the door and buzzes up to Nina's flat, smiling slightly when she buzzes back after a moment.
"Step out with me," he says. It's a lovely, unseasonably warm day, and he wants to subject her to his boyish impulse. "You have a horse to show me."
The car lot is a curious place. The men working there gaze at Thomas suspiciously, but he's quite used to that. He remembers returning from the war and buying his first one with Arthur and John, the looks from those men selling the cars, their suspicion as these war-rough Gypsy boys had caroused about the fine machines. The suspicion on the sellers' faces is not so dissimilar today as it was then.
When it comes to it, he drives off the lot with the agreement to bring the car back in one piece. He drives off the lot, and nearly as soon as he's away, he lets the engine purr through its paces.
When he pulls up outside Candlewood, he feels a little silly. It's hardly the first time he's come calling on a woman, but it has been a while. He approaches the door and buzzes up to Nina's flat, smiling slightly when she buzzes back after a moment.
"Step out with me," he says. It's a lovely, unseasonably warm day, and he wants to subject her to his boyish impulse. "You have a horse to show me."