She bends down and opens the yellow cupboard and rummages in there, pulling out a jar and placing it before him on the table. “As long as it takes.” He repeats the words slowly, thinking that it doesn’t matter, he wont mind, he wont make a fuss, he’ll be as nice as he can. Oh go on jump, she thinks, for gods sake, do it together. She watches them together, touching and hanging on the branch, like two people about to jump. Her eyes rest on the apricot tree which appears not to know whether to live or die, the way it straggles upward with only a clutch of branches, and two small apricots hanging cheek to cheek, still firm and small. It seems to undo her, makes her feel as if she has been left behind or cast away, as if life has forgotten her. She wishes the garden wasn’t so patchy and half-hearted. It’s scruffy, the grass is long or worn away, the tin roof on the laundry is flapping in the wind. They’re like old people, she thinks, staring out the window into the back garden. Dried up little tongues, scorched into silence, emitting only a dusty drained fragrance.
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