Love Between Friends, or Friendship and Lovers, or Love in the Afternoon (Google Books ⧉, Amazon ⧉, Bookshop ⧉)

Golden Days

But then there came a day when that man (who also wore gabardine, who probably had never been handsome but who carried concealed beneath his wash-and-wear shirt a heart that did more than simply beat) came into our little class of urban losers with a stack of six books, all the same, and all his. Love Between Friends, or Friendship and Lovers, or Love in the Afternoon its paper cover garish, you could tell from looking that no one would buy it, but a light shone from his face that was beatific. "My book," he said, in his own heaven. "It just came in the mail. Isn’t it beautiful?