"As you like," he replied easily, offering her his arm. The gesture was all trained politeness, manners rather than true interest or concern.
Silently, he walked her out to the courtyard adjacent to the lounge, with its manicured lawns and carefully landscaped shrubbery. It would have been nice had he not been so conscious of how the efforts on it might have been better spent.
Around them, the late-winter air seemed too crisp as he breathed it in, the cold burning in his lungs in a most ironic of contradictions. "At times I do miss nature. Perhaps one day it will come into fashion and there will be expansive, unkempt parks."
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Silently, he walked her out to the courtyard adjacent to the lounge, with its manicured lawns and carefully landscaped shrubbery. It would have been nice had he not been so conscious of how the efforts on it might have been better spent.
Around them, the late-winter air seemed too crisp as he breathed it in, the cold burning in his lungs in a most ironic of contradictions. "At times I do miss nature. Perhaps one day it will come into fashion and there will be expansive, unkempt parks."