Nude on the Beach

Nude on the Beach
One Moment in Time
precious time
Red Hat Girl "Pockets," she saidaloud… "Pockets, I suppose…. Andquite difficult to find…”
　　Would that account for that curious feeling ofuneasiness she had had last night? That feeling that something was wrong….
　　All those elderly people – really very much like those she remembered when she had stayed here fiftyyears ago. They had been natural then – but they weren't very natural now. Elderly people nowadays weren'tlike elderly people then – they had that worried harried lookof domestic anxieties with which they are too tired to cope, or they rushed around tocommittees and tried to appear bustling and competent, or they dyed their hair gentianblue, or wore wigs, and their hands were not the hands she remembered, tapering, delicatehands – they were harsh from washing up and detergents…