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The Jealous One
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Celia Fremlin408 ratings, 3.80 average rating, 67 reviews
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“My goodness though, you do look washed out. Is it the 'flu? Do you have it very badly?"
"Yes, I suppose it is," she admitted. 'It's this one-day 'flu that everyone's been having, though it's lasted two days with me. My temperature was a hundred and two last night,' she added, warming to the recital.
Carlotta leaned forward, frowning anxiously. You might have supposed that the anxiety was for her neighbour's state of health, but even Rosamund could tell that this wasn't so. Carlotta was in fact being agonisingly torn between two treasured, but sadly contradictory, images of herself: one, as the woman who is never ill; the second, as the woman who has had a higher temperature than anybody else, ever, and much higher than Rosamund's paltry 102°.”
― The Jealous One
"Yes, I suppose it is," she admitted. 'It's this one-day 'flu that everyone's been having, though it's lasted two days with me. My temperature was a hundred and two last night,' she added, warming to the recital.
Carlotta leaned forward, frowning anxiously. You might have supposed that the anxiety was for her neighbour's state of health, but even Rosamund could tell that this wasn't so. Carlotta was in fact being agonisingly torn between two treasured, but sadly contradictory, images of herself: one, as the woman who is never ill; the second, as the woman who has had a higher temperature than anybody else, ever, and much higher than Rosamund's paltry 102°.”
― The Jealous One