![]() ![]() Her cranberry lipstick was visible only on the outer reaches of her mouth, and her eyeliner had left charcoal patches beneath her lower lashes. She wore a navy blue poplin raincoat over gray sweatpants and white sneakers, looking, at thirty-three, like the type of woman she'd once She let the strap of her leather satchel, plump with files, slipįrom her shoulders, and left it in the hallway as she walked into the kitchen. "It's good of them to warn us," Shoba conceded after reading the notice aloud, more for her own benefit than Shukumar's. The work would affect only the houses on the quiet tree-lined street, within walking distance of a row of brick-faced stores and a trolley stop, where Shoba and Shukumar had lived for three years. A line had gone down in the last snowstorm, and the repairmen were going to take advantage of the milder evenings ![]() The notice informed them that it was a temporary matter: for five days their electricity would be cut off for one hour, beginning at eight P.M. ![]()
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