Excerpt: Cassandra at the Wedding

Robert Bevan, Whisky and Soda (1914)
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I leaned across the counter and turned a handle and watched a ribbon of water unfurl from the goose-necked spigot to the little copper sink, all soundlessly and with no splash. But my father noticed it anyhow and told me to quit playing in the water and announce what I'd have.

"Brandy and soda, if you please," I said.

Dorothy Baker, Cassandra at the Wedding (1962)