An Idyll of All Fools' Day
An Idyll of All Fools' Day
By Josephine Daskam Bacon
5 Feb, 2020
Brief Extract: Antony's fingers stiffened and grew damp against the wheel. For a few sick seconds he sat utterly silent, stunned and incredulous, not knowing what he did, while his hands, with a strange muscular memory all their own of the days when
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Brief Extract: Antony's fingers stiffened and grew damp against the wheel. For a few sick seconds he sat utterly silent, stunned and incredulous, not knowing what he did, while his hands, with a strange muscular memory all their own of the days when he had propelled a 38little mechanical velocipede steered by a wheel, kept the whirring vehicle in the centre of the long, empty road.
"Good heavens!" he muttered at last, "I thought you told me--you certainly said--I understood you--oh, the devil!" Less