Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood

However, he seemed the right man for the job. He kept stroking and pinching Sally’s arm and pawing her hand. The only trouble was, he might be very expensive. And the doctor was a fully qualified man, very clever indeed. A friend of a friend’s friend had once had difficulties. She took it very well: she was alarmed but extremely practical.

‘I should think’, said Sally, ‘we’d better ask Frl. ‘Well then, we’ve got to find someone without a professional reputation, that’s all.’ The only thing which matters to him is his professional reputation.’ ‘He seemed to think it was quite beside the point. I said, “My dear man, what do you imagine would happen to the unfortunate child if it was born? Do I look as if I’d make a good mother?”’ ‘Not have it, of course.’ Sally reached for a cigarette. ‘Don’t look so scared, darling! I’ve been more or less expecting it, you know.’ ‘Well Christopher darling, I’ve been made an April Fool of.’ Sally was sitting up in bed, with a rather fixed grin on her face: But, very much to our surprise, he left the flat suddenly, in a great hurry, without even looking in to wish us good afternoon.

Schroeder and I sat waiting in the living-room to hear his diagnosis. The doctor, when he arrived, stayed a long time. ‘But after all, what else can you expect from a woman of that sort, a common prostitute! Why, Herr Issyvoo, do you know what she used to be? A servant girl! And then she got to be on intimate terms with her employer and one fine day, of course, she found herself in certain circumstances… And when that little difficulty was removed, she had to go trot-trot…’ Kost has broken the spout of the teapot or omitted to make crosses for her telephonecalls on the slate in the living-room, the invariably she exclaims: Kost and certainly hasn’t any moral objections to her trade: nevertheless, when she is angry because Fr.

Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood