Back At the Dinner Party
“Where"s this fascination with the truth come from, Alicia? I"ve never heard you mention it before.” It was Sir Giles who questioned her conviction.
“It"s not so much the truth I"m on about, it"s the lies that we all accept in our everyday lives that interest me. Perhaps the avoidance of truth is closer to it. The woman and child in Harrods was a foolish example of mine. As you rightly said, Giles, the boy will realise in time that not all oranges come from Spain. It"s as I say; more the lies we tell to avoid telling the truth.”
“Are you guilty of that, Alicia?” Rupert asked.
“I guess I must be as I"ve certainly misled some people to believe that I liked them when in truth I didn"t.”
“Any one of us sitting here?” Rupert replied, smiling smugly.
“I would advis
