Suddenly she got up and went to bed room. I could see disappointment in his eyes. Even I too got disappointed with the act of my wife and just saw in ...he bed room what she was doing there. She has removed her ring from finger and thrown in the corner of the dressing table. Then she called watchman to bed room and told him that when she was removing ring it fell down somewhere. Then he has put on the tube light and started searching for it. While searching deliberately she used to touch her hips. Years of wrinkles were in the corners of her eyes and her mouth. One eye was cloudy, as if a cataract was forming there. The other was as gray as her dress, and disturbingly alert and direct.One of the old Soviets, Bill thought. A doctor or nurse who left her hospital or lost her job when the old system collapsed back in the nineties. He had read that there were many of them on the fringes of society in Putin's Russia, former professionals making do as best they could, living on the remains of. " Another nod. "You gonna tell me what happened to your shirt?" I finally asked.My cute wife blushed but gave a small grin. "George, like I told you, I thought about things while I was at Mr. Wilkins'. I wasn't thinking about whether we would stay or not. I just figured if we go it would be there, in the air, and would I feel comfortable. I had to decide George."We were standing near each other when he gave me the map. Maybe I was trying to make light of things but I mentioned I wasn't as fussy. There was palemushroom coloured carpet on the floor and the walls were a slightlydarker shade of the same colour. On the right as they entered the roomwere some closets. To the left were a black leather reclining chair andquite a large tree in a pot.The huge bed in the main space of the room was clearly made to fit threeadults.How unusual! thought Mandy.You're going to have fun in here! she told herself.It was a four-poster canopy bed (the ?canopy? being part of the ceiling)of modern design in.