The Orange Wedge

The office of a women's electrical association in central London on a January afternoon at dusk, rain on a tall sash window, a green-shaded desk lamp casting warm light onto a polished oak desk, on it a stack of thin booklets tied with tape and one booklet lying at a flat angle, its plain cover of orange card with a darker orange-red wedge narrowing downward into a round foot, a fountain pen, a gleaming electric kettle, a radiator of painted iron under the window, a woman in a tweed skirt and cardigan seen from directly behind at the window.