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⇒ Cover ⇒ Preface ⇒ Introduction ⇒ The visit ⇒ Weymouth map c.1930 ⇒ Portland map c.1930 ⇒ Works quoted ⇒ Postface |
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A visit to Weymouth with John Cowper Powys [ ⇒ continue... ] |
The more imaginative a man is—and all men are more imaginative than women—the more complicated will he find his life with anyone of them. |
THE WISHING WELL |
The teacher was thinking of the rendezvous which he had at the Wishing Well that afternoon. (...) And if he was late would Curly wait for him? It was only in summer that she or her mother had to be there all the while. During the winter they only went to the place to rake the leaves away and keep the fountain clean. But there was a shelter and a seat hard-by; and surely Curly would give him a little grace if he were late! (...) He had arranged to meet Curly at half-past twelve at the Well, have a light lunch at the Inn, where they were both well known and accepted as a respectable couple, and then spend the afternoon, if it turned out fine, walking round the prehistoric, grass-covered earth-works called Maiden Castle, whose turfy ramparts rose up on the north of Upwey and were skirted by the Dorchester Road.(...) As he followed the little lane that led to the famous fountain—one of the most popular Wishing Wells in the West of England—his heart began to beat faster. |
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