欧宝娱乐

His wife has left Wilderness Tips lying on the coffee table, and he picks it up. Over the last twenty years, several women have told him to read it. He doesn't like to be pushed into things.

Now, though, his curiosity has got the better of him. The first few pages do make him a little uneasy. The scene where the boys are spying on the waitresses' beach party through their binoculars. He also feels like a voyeur. But that soon disappears. He isn't overhearing her private conversations: Margaret is talking directly to him. After a while, he identifies the tune that's started playing in his head. He goes over to the CD shelf, and looks around until he finds the Roches. He skips forward to "The Married Men".

One in Louisiana, one who travels around
One of them mainly stays in heart-throb town
I am not their main concern, they are lonely too
I am just an arrow passing through

He can hear Margaret's ironic, teasing, sexy voice, as they lie in bed together and she tells him another story. "It's something that happened to a friend," she says, and he wonders if it actually happened to her, or if she made it up. He doesn't care. It's enough just to listen to her.

One of them's got a little boy, other one he's got two
one of them's wife is one week overdue

I know these girls they don't like me, but I am just like them
picking a crazy apple off a stem

He's in the middle of "The Bog Man" when he realises that his wife's come in and is looking at him curiously. He has to suppress a guilty start.

"Did you learn anything useful?" she asks.

He doesn't quite know what to make of her inflection. What was that French expression she likes?

"Mi-figue, mi-raisin," she says. Damn! She's reading his mind again. He wonders what else she discovered there.

"It's okay, honey," she adds softly, as she comes over and sits next to him. "I'm so glad you finally read it," and for some reason he finds that he has tears in his eyes, and she does too.