<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=361664" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Invitation To Tea (A Dark Comedy) Part 1</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Charles Latimer visited the corner shop run by the Forbes sisters Charlotte and Grace almost every day. He could have collected his groceries in one visit, but the short intercourse of words they exchanged broke the emptiness in his life. As he entered the shop, the tiny bell above the door chimed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grace Forbes stood behind the counter. “Good morning Mr Latimer, ” she said. “What would you like today? ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Good morning, Grace. I’ve written out a small list. My needs are not many as you know.” He replied and smiled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“I’m surprised you never married. You would have made some lucky woman a wonderful husband.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Charles Latimer felt his cheeks warm. “Would it be all right to leave the list and pick up my groceries later? ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Of course. Why, have you got a date with someone? ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“In a manner of speaking. I feed the pigeons in the park every morning about this time. I must be going now.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“We’ll have your groceries ready by the time you get back.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Thank you, ” he said, turned, and left.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grace watched him leave. A sad unpretentious man whose clothes always seemed a size too large.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Grace who were you talking to? ” Her sister asked entering the shop.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Our Mr. Latimer, Charlotte. He has left a list.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“It is a shame he never married.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Yes. He wasn’t fortunate to be blessed with a brother or sister neither. Such a same.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Maybe we should introduce him to Mr Potter.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“I don’t think so. Not after the trouble we had with him after Mr Armad’s visit.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“That is because he wasn’t English. Mr Potter doesn’t like foreigners. He found Mr Small and Mr Cummings quite agreeable, didn’t he? ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Yes.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“He is bound to like Mr Latimer.” Charlotte smiled. “Now we must put up his groceries for him.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>To be continued…</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Harris">David Harris</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=361664" data-title="An Invitation To Tea (A Dark Comedy) Part 1 de David Harris" data-description="Charles Latimer visited the corner shop run by the Forbes sisters Charlotte and Grace almost every day. He could have collected his groceries in one visit, but the short intercourse of words they exchanged broke the emptiness in his life. As he en..."></div> </div> </div>

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