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Yes, it was probably afterwards, because when I left the toilet. I was in a hurry and my attention was focused on what was happening outside, although I must have had some inkling of it while I was in the Ladies, it was an idea that would never have crossed Wheeler's mind or Mrs Berry's for that matter, indeed, it didn't even cross mine until that moment, after I had seen the woman with the abundant thighs sitting on the toilet, no, abundant makes them sound fat, but they weren't, they were, how can I put it, magnificence, formidability, pure presence. A summons. 'A woman is wearing no knickers,' I thought, 'although she is wearing tights, possibly the sort you can get nowadays that come halfway up the thigh like stockings, but which are held up by elastic, a graceless substitute for old-fashioned garters, the kind worn by that imminent heiress-cum-spouse - the one who stayed the night and for breakfast as well and whose husband-to-be and cuckold-that-was appeared to be obsessed with her mobile phone or to consider it a military objective - at least she wore them on the one occasion when I saw her take them off or when I took them off for her, I can't really remember the incident in any detail.' I remembered and thought this while lying in bed, when I wasn't, in fact, particularly interested in remembering, it was entirely involuntary.
Debió de ser más entonces, porque llevaba prisa y la vista aguzada hacia lo exterior tan sólo cuando salí del lavabo, donde sin embargo me surgió la ocurrencia sin duda, esa idea nunca habría cruzado la cabeza de Wheeler ni la de la señora Berry, de hecho no pasó por la mía hasta aquel momento, tras haber visto sentada en la tabla a la mujer de los abundantes muslos, no, eso hace concebir gordura y no la había, cómo decir, era imponencia, era formidabilidad, era presencia. Era llamada. 'Una mujer no lleva bragas', pensé; 'aunque sí lleve medias, pueden ser de esas que se venden ahora, que llegan hasta la mitad del muslo como las de antes y se sujetan con un elástico que hace las veces y la imitación sin gracia de las antiguas ligas, usaba de esas aquella inminente heredera consorte que se quedó una noche a desayunar en casa y cuyo teléfono móvil parecía una obsesión o un objetivo bélico para su aún premarido pero ya postcornudo, o al menos las usó esa vez única en que la vi quitárselas o se las quité yo mismo, de la vicisitud ya mal me acuerdo.' Rememoré y pensé eso echado en la cama, poco interesado en rememorarlo, fue del todo involuntario.
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