Word: hilditch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...affair occurred, he said something about working in sales at a lawn-mower factory near Birmingham, England, so that is where she goes. But no one can tell her where such a factory might be. And almost the first person she asks proves to be an unfortunate choice. Mr. Hilditch, a heavy, middle-aged catering supervisor, takes a dangerous interest in this lost, desperate girl, just as he has in others like her who were unfortunate enough to bump into him in the past...
...story is told as both Felicia and Mr. Hilditch experience it, and these alternating points of view not only enhance suspense but also illuminate character. Felicia does not know that while searching for her lover she has become prey to someone else. As she thinks back to the romantic interlude that caused her current dilemma, she cannot--or will not--see how badly used she has been by the father of her unborn child...
...part, Mr. Hilditch seems uneasily enigmatic, even to himself. He lives in a substantial house he inherited from his mother and maintains an air of jovial respectability with his co-workers. When he recalls the other young women he has befriended, he does not allow himself to think of what happened to them. His interior monologues are conducted in euphemisms. Pondering the arrival of the Irish girl, ``he finds himself exhilarated by the circumstances that have been presented to him, and only regrets that the ordained brevity of this relationship is an element in those circumstances also...
...story is told as both Felicia and Mr. Hilditch experience it, and these alternating points of view not only enhance suspense but also illuminate character. Felicia does not know that while searching for her lover, she herself has become prey to someone else. As she thinks back to the romantic interlude that caused her current dilemma, she cannot -- or will not -- see how badly used she has been by the father of her unborn child...
...part, Mr. Hilditch seems uneasily enigmatic, even to himself. He lives in a substantial house he inherited from his mother and maintains an air of jovial respectability with his co-workers. When he recalls the other young women he has befriended, he does not allow himself to think of what happened to them. His interior monologues are conducted in euphemisms. Pondering the arrival of the Irish girl, "he finds himself exhilarated by the circumstances that have been presented to him, and only regrets that the ordained brevity of this relationship is an element in those circumstances also...