NICE AND LOVELY

‘That bear’s gone,’ she said.
I looked up at where I’d hung the bear yesterday and scanned the foyer it wasn’t there.
‘The cone’s back though,’ I said.
The cone was in the corner left of the lift.
When the door opened the woman I could see stood still said, ‘oh we’re here.’
A man wallked out then the woman who said, ‘Anna had a really nice dress, it was lovely...’
‘Hmm,’ said the man.
‘“Anna had a really nice dress,”’ she said when the lift door closed.
‘I thought it was “lovely,”’ I said.
‘Both.’
‘You could tell he was interested,’ I said.
‘How?’
‘The way he went “hmm” when she told him about it.’