Phoebe
interrupts her game to swing through the front door and announce that
the taxi is here. It irritates Sandra slightly that he arrives so
early. It makes her feel hurried. So I go out to tell the taxi man
that she will only be ready in half an hour. “I'm early”, he says
through the wound down window, as I approach. He is finishing a
mouthful of lunch. And still has some red stains from it in the
corners of his mouth - maybe tomato sauce. “I came early”, he
says, “so that I could sit and look at the mountains for a bit.”
