Therese said, “I’m sure you thought it was a man who sent you the Christmas card, didn’t you?”       “I did,” she said,...

      Therese said, “I’m sure you thought it was a man who sent you the Christmas card, didn’t you?”
      “I did,” she said,...

Therese said, “I’m sure you thought it was a man who sent you the Christmas card, didn’t you?”

“I did,” she said, through a smile. “I though it just might be a man in the ski department who’d sent it.”

“I’m sorry.”

“No, I’m delighted.” She leaned back in the booth. “I doubt very much if I’d have gone to lunch with him. No, I’m delighted.”

—The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith

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