‘I was swimming this morning at six....
In the sea. I went down alone. There was no one there at all.
I slipped into the water. It was wonderful. Then I went home,’ she said,
banging the car door on her side, and taking off with a little whoosh of sand
from the roadside, ‘and I ate some strawberries and cream. Katherine Mansfield
describes a woman in one of her stories as eating cream with a “rapt inward
look”. That is so good. It is exactly like that.’
From On Canaan’s Side by Sebastian Barry
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