Adultery

Page 52, sentence 5.

It was five minutes past nine and the dining room was surprisingly lively, nearly filled with people his age or older, prosperous-looking couples enjoying their rashers and eggs, taking a little holiday from diet and cholesterol worries.

Richard B. Wright
Adultery

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Here are two other passages from Adultery that are interesting:

The Moonbeam, he thought, was an ideal place for people in hiding. There was something forlorn and illicit about it all, a room on the highway near the edge of a town where a man alone might watch a porn movie or write a suidcide note. Or perhaps both. (p.171)

Looking out, Fielding was moved by the terrible finality of death. Denise Crowder was under earth and leaves, and all that was left now lay in the memories of those who had known her. But memories reside in consciousness, and in time the dead are conveyed gradually to its furthest reaches, returning only when summoned by keepsake or song, on anniversary dates, in dreams. (p.241)