Sojourn (ePub)

The two on the deck overlooking the beach are declining to talk to each other. The man on the left leans on the railing of the deck and looks out to sea while watching the woman several paces behind him, arms folded over her breast. Occasionally a shower of spray flies up onto the railing and the planks of the deck, but the man refuses to budge. Foam flecks his hair. The woman steps back and looks down at two large spreading wet patches on the toes of her shoes, ballerina blue, though she is clearly no dancer. Anna had asked him to meet her at the resort because she said she had something important to tell him. But when he arrived, someone else was waiting, a woman he'd never met who said that Anna had been delayed. Anna will explain when she gets here, this woman said. Anna's friend had the same name as an unfashionable flower, hence, as far as he was concerned: the flower lady. Really, it was unsatisfactory. Looking out to sea, he thought so repeatedly: unsatisfactory, this is most unsatisfactory, until the sea itself began to seem insufficient. Courtesy required that they dine together. Since they had nothing to talk about, he asked her about herself, a reasonable option with most people. But his arbitrary companion was reluctant to offer anything that led distinctly to anything else. The conversation kept stopping and soon ground to a halt. After ten minutes in her company even an innocent comment about the weather began to seem like an interrogation. . Fortunately they had a seat near the window which offered a view of the hotel grounds at the back and an esplanade on the other side of which lay the ocean, shining under a full moon, without language and innocent of design, as far as anyone knows. At one point, stubbing out a cigarette-he detested people who smoked, it indicated low intelligence-the woman said: 'Anna thinks you bear some responsibility. But I suppose you're aware of that'. But how could he know when no-one had told him anything? Having left an

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