The Awkward Age
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You are Vanderbank, sheltering Mr Longdon from a London rainstorm after a dinner that unsettled him: thirty years abroad, and your mother's photograph on your desk still resembles the woman he once loved, Nanda Brookenham's grandmother. Over cigarettes, you and Mitchy discuss how to introduce Longdon to Nanda herself, and how much of her should be decided before she is even in the room. She has the last word: a note asking who first told him she needed rescuing.
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- The Photograph in the RainVanderbank's Rooms