加勒比海之谜4

时间：2025-11-25 09:50:21

（单词翻译:单击）

In the bar, Molly Kendal stretched her back, and slipped off her high-

heeled shoes. Tim came in from the terrace to join her. They had the bar

to themselves for the moment.

“Tired, darling?” he asked.

“Just a bit. I seem to be feeling my feet tonight.”

“Not too much for you, is it? All this? I know it’s hard work.” He looked

at her anxiously.

She laughed. “Oh, Tim, don’t be ridiculous. I love it here. It’s gorgeous.

The kind of dream I’ve always had, come true.”

“Yes, it would be all right—if one was just a guest. But running the show

—that’s work.”

“Well, you can’t have anything for nothing, can you?” said Molly Kendal

reasonably.

Tim Kendal frowned.

“You think it’s going all right? A success? We’re making a go of it?”

“Of course we are.”

“You don’t think people are saying, ‘It’s not the same as when the

Sandersons were here.’”

“Of course someone will be saying that—they always do! But only some

old stick-in-the-mud. I’m sure that we’re far better at the job than they

were. We’re more glamorous. You charm the old pussies and manage to

look as though you’d like to make love to the desperate forties and fifties,

and I ogle the old gentlemen and make them feel sexy dogs—or play the

sweet little daughter the sentimental ones would love to have had. Oh,

we’ve got it all taped splendidly.”

Tim’s frown vanished.

“As long as you think so. I get scared. We’ve risked everything on mak-

ing a job of this. I chucked my job—”

“And quite right to do so,” Molly put in quickly. “It was soul-destroying.”

He laughed and kissed the tip of her nose.

“I tell you we’ve got it taped,” she repeated. “Why do you always

worry?”

“Made that way, I suppose. I’m always thinking—suppose something

should go wrong.”

“What sort of thing—”

“Oh, I don’t know. Somebody might get drowned.”

“Not they. It’s one of the safest of all the beaches. And we’ve got that

hulking Swede always on guard.”

“I’m a fool,” said Tim Kendal. He hesitated — and then said, “You —

haven’t had any more of those dreams, have you?”

“That was shellfish,” said Molly, and laughed.

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