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“Here’s the thing about middle-class people. They pretend not to look, but they do. They were too polite to actually stare. Instead, they did this weird thing of catching sight of Will in their field of vision and then determinedly not looking at him. Until he’d gone past, at which point their gaze would flicker towards him, even while they remained in conversation with someone else. They wouldn’t talk about him, though. Because that would be rude.” — Jojo Moyes
Here’s the thing about middle-class
people. They pretend not to look, but they
do. They were too polite to actually stare.
Instead, they did this weird thing of
catching sight of Will in their field of
vision and then determinedly not looking
at him. Until he’d gone past, at which
point their gaze would flicker towards
him, even while they remained in
conversation with someone else. They
wouldn’t talk about him, though. Because
that would be rude.