'I'm very old you know,' she said, 'and I would see thatas quite a good way to go. Whydid I do it, Aubrey? How could I have been so stupid?''Had this affair, you mean?'Tom stared at him; they had not confronted the issuebefore. Force him into a political debate, or try and make him sing?'I won't,' she said humbly. ''It isn't late, it isn't even dark.
'And that reminds me,we must arrange your holiday. 'I'm so sorry,' she said, 'sorryI was so hostile. She'd been thinking about her a lot lately,missing her. All of them illogical, outrageouseven: but most recognisably there, a source of sweet, surerevenge.
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