You've been hanging on the telephone...

"She felt a flood of affection. He was so beautiful in his nature. He pursed his lips while someone came down the hall. Ann blushed to her shoulders. She was grateful that it was dark outside. She would have preferred not to have to go into the light inside the house. It was hard to believe, on an unremarkable London street which bore a red telephone box, that she was in love and in the middle of a faraway war. She was pleased again, for no reason she could identify, that Sebastian hadn't liked Parveen. It mattered as much as the fact that he had touched her."
Imraan Coovadia, "Tales of the Metric System"

Can I keep this up, this quoting of London scenes that I love? And was she aware that she matched the telephone box?

Extraordinary day today--a privilege to be part of a hilarious and yet also demanding meeting. Watch the reputable press for details of the shortlist of the Caine Prize for African Writing, to be announced next Tuesday.