The Macguffin

The MacguffinDruff had been married to Rose Helen 36 years. What was he, 22 when he married her? Just a kid. And Rose Helen, 60 now—60, Jesus!—had been 24. Jesus! too, as far as that was concerned. Because hadn't a deep part of her attraction been, as, God help him, it was something of an aversion now, those two extra years she had on him, as if she lived in a distant, telling time zone, coming to him, it could be, from alien geography, bringing alien geography, the covered flesh she'd not permi...