Before She Met Me

Now it just … it just seems to excite you in some way

course I did. I enjoyed it. He was a great screw. I asked him to bugger me as well.’

The grasp relaxed at once. Graham’s eyes went dull. He looked down in front of him

At least now, he would say to himself, now that I’ve got Ann, at least now I’ll be properly mourned

yet Graham felt curiously unmarried. He felt happy, but he didn’t feel married

So instead, he turned over, and let morally neutral sleep force his declaration

She felt, at the same time, both older and younger than him.

Ann’s girlfriends decreed that once you reached thirty, the men you met (unless you turned cradle-snatcher) tended to be either homosexual, married or psychotic, and that of the three, the married men were obviously the best

tried repeating the person’s name as they shook hands. “Hullo, Rachel,” he’d say, and ‘Hullo, Lionel,’ and ‘Good evening, Marion.’ But the men seemed to think you homosexual for it