You kept sane by knowing that hypocrisy might be politically necessary, but that you didn't have to believe it. You kept honest;there was no point in the job otherwise. You did the job so that your male colleagues had to respect you even if it was too much to expect that they would like you. You kept your private life price, unmessy. There were men enough in the world without being trapped by propinquity into sexual entanglement with your colleagues. You did't fall into the way habit of obscenity. You knew how far you could reasonably hope to rise and how you proposed to get there. You made no unnecessary enemies; it was hard enough for a woman to climb without getting kicked in the ankles on the way up. Every job, after all, had its disadvantages. Nurses got used to the smell of dressings... (查看原文)
He needed an hour or two of solitude and quietness, an excuse to get away from London, from his office, from the insistent telephone, from Massingham and the squad. He needed to escape from the Assistant Commissioner's carefully unspoken criticism that he was making a mystery out of a tragic but unremarkable suicide and murder, that they were all wasting time on a manhunt without a quarry. He need to escape, howevery briefly, from the clutter of his desk and the pressure of personalities, to see the case with clearer, unprejudiced eyes. (查看原文)
He found himself wishing that the road would straighten before his wheels and run empty, un-signposted, forever, that he could press down the accelerator and lose all his frustrations in the surge of power, that this rush of autumn-scented air screaming in his ears could cleanse his mind as well as his eyes of the color of blood forever. (查看原文)
