Summary
The Case of
Eleanor and David by Phyllis Hamilton
Eleanor and David have been together for almost
thirty years. Eleanor is sitting in a chair, waiting for David to come home.
She is mentally preparing for a talk with him, aiming to win him back, as she
suspects him of having a relationship
with another woman. She finally falls asleep over her nervous reflections, and
wakes up when David enters. Yet when she starts to talk about the change in his
behaviour towards her, he stays indifferent to her pleading and finally tells
her that he has the intention to move out the next morning. As David says
Goodnight, the reader finds out that Eleanor is not his wife, as assumed, but
actually his mother. Leaving the room, David does not notice she has died from
shock.
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