Homer's beloved

Usage examples of marge.

Dickie and Marge went in front of him, taking the endless flights of stone steps slowly and steadily, two at a time.

The table on the terrace had been set for three while he was in the shower, and Marge was in the kitchen now, talking in Italian to the maid.

Dickie and Marge began to talk about the enlargement of some restaurant down on the beach.

In a few moments there were four little cups of coffee, one of which Marge took into the kitchen to the maid.

For an instant he saw Dickie and Marge as they crossed a space between houses on the main road.

There was an alley by the side of the hotel just below his window, and Dickie and Marge came down it, Dickie in his white trousers and terra cotta shirt, Marge in a skirt and blouse.

So Marge was coming, too, and there was nothing Tom could do about it.

It was just a plain clapboard house, but it was home, Marge said with a smile.

FOR three or four days they saw very little of Marge except down at the beach, and she was noticeably cooler towards both of them on the beach.

Finally Tom, to show that he was not obtuse about Marge, mentioned to Dickie that he thought she was acting strangely.

And now, though Tom knew Dickie was still firm about their going alone, Dickie was being more than usually attentive to Marge, just because he realised that she would be lonely here by herself, and that it was essentially unkind of them not to ask her along.

But Marge still looked dejected, and Dickie still tried to make it up by asking her often to the house now for lunch and dinner.

Freddie Miles had been gone when they got back from their Rome trip: he had had to go to London suddenly, Marge had told them.

He imagined it, awkward, clumsy, unsatisfactory for Dickie, and Marge loving it.

Just because Dickie liked him, Tom thought, Marge had launched her filthy accusations of him at Dickie.