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If Mrs Todd knew from the start that we were involved, she was able to pretend that she didn't because Raymond had so far always succeeded in waking up in time to slip away before she arrived in the morning. An able if occasionally overly energetic lover at night, Raymond was the soul of driving professionalism and formal politeness during the day. When I was Raymond's age this sort of compartmentalisation of roles and relationships would have struck me as hypocritical, even deceitful. Now, however, it seemed quite the most convenient, even honest way to behave. Raymond and I could be prim and correct with each other while he performed his driverly duties, and as carnally abandoned as we desired when he took off his peaked cap and set his grey uniform aside. In fact I rather enjoyed the contrast: it lent a certain anticipatory frisson to the mundane condition of being taken from one place to another.
Si la señora Todd adivinó desde el principio que estábamos liados, supo fingir lo contrario, porque hasta la fecha Raymond siempre había conseguido levantarse a tiempo para escabullirse antes de que ella llegara por la mañana. Raymond, un amante capaz y en ocasiones excesivamente enérgico por la noche, era la profesionalidad al volante y la formalidad personificadas durante el día. Cuando yo tenía la edad de Raymond, este tipo de compartimentación de los roles y las relaciones me habría parecido hipócrita, incluso engañosa. Ahora, sin embargo, parecía el modo más conveniente, o incluso el más honesto, de comportarse. Raymond y yo podíamos ser correctos y formales entre nosotros mientras él cumplía con sus deberes de conductor y abandonarnos al placer carnal cuando se quitaba la gorra con visera y dejaba a un lado el uniforme gris.
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