They stopped at a tatty door and the woman pushed it open, ushering Cindy inside and then following her just over the threshold. The room was small, ...ark and very basic. A bed covered with a worn brown coarse looking blanket, an upright wooden chair that one belonged to a dining table, and a small dressing table covered with a square of dirty material. A door led off into a small bathroom containing a stained toilet bowl holding foul looking brown water, a rusting cistern, a chipped and. Right?" Exactly," said Nickerson. "I'm an officer too." He sounded like he hoped that impressed her.She turned to her father again."So is he one of the officers you're always complaining about who fucks everything up?"The stunned silence generated by her flippant comment broke as she slapped one thigh and laughed "Kidding! Boy you guys sure take yourselves seriously."But that broke the ice in a way that nothing else would have. She had used a word none of them would have dared use in her. She had been free and easy,lending herself to all who used her.These days, with the pollution from the factories, you no longer sawfishing nets suspended over poles by the riverside and people no longerswam in La Bonne.Sure the town still saw boats but these were seagoing vessels thattransported goods overseas rather than inland and river going boats wererarely seen as the transport of goods was now done by road.La Bonne was neglected now and people rarely visited her, as if they wereashamed of. ’ ‘Thanks Mike, but it is a bit late now, I’m 38.’ ‘You still look beautiful.’ Sarah looked a little shocked. ‘What a nice thing to say, do you mean it?’ ‘Of course, you are the most beautiful woman I know.’ ‘It is a pity you are so young.’ ‘Why?’ ‘If you were my age, I would snap you up.’ Mike thought about it and suddenly realised as well as a friend he was attracted to Sarah as a woman. She may be about twenty years older, but she still looked good, and they just got on so well together..
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