At last a day came when the chill went from the air. The day started much as any other since we had left Crete. I sat in the wheelhouse with stiff, unthawed limbs, my eyes feeling pinched and my throat tight from smoking too much.
Although the women found the picture of Jack in spike heels irresistible, their own feet, half frozen, thawing and unthawing, stung with such fierce poignancy that their humor was invaded by sympathy, and nobody laughed. Here I was, broke, Marlis went on. Knocked up. Which I did not expect, but which I halfway treasured and half resented .
The food is honest and hearty, perfect for unthawing frozen limbs.