Fast Fiction: About Daphne
What is Capstone's reaction when he hears that Daphne has moved on again?
Richard Mallinson's story concerns a woman in transit.
I caught up with Capstone as he was turning into the tiny well-kept park which wasn't used as much as it deserved to be.
'I'm just going to sit here for a while,' he said.
'I'll join you.'
'So, what's on your mind?' he said.
I looked up at the sky. 'Have you heard the news?'
'What news?'
'About Daphne.'
'Daphne? What about her?'
'She's gone.'
'What d'you mean?'
'Well, just as she left you for me, now she's left me for somebody else. Herbert Rawley, if you must know.'
'Herbert Rawley? The television chap? Good lord. How did she meet him?'
'He came to open that new supermarket and she asked him for his autograph. It seems it all followed from there. He lives in London, as you'd expect . . . She's moved in with him.'
There was a long pause.
'Serves you bloody well right,' Capstone said.
