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"Is it as blissful as you expected?" I say, trying to sound lighthearted

"Well, you know…" He stares into his glass, a slightly hunted look in his eye "It would be unrealistic to expect everything to be perfect straight off Wouldn’t it?"

"I suppose so"

There’s an aard silence between us In the distance I can hear so, "Kate Spade! Look, brand new!"

"Becky, I’m really sorry," says To"

"That’s all right!" I say, a little too brightly

"It’s not all right" He shakes his head "Youron You’re one ofreally bad, ever since"

"Honestly, Tom It was my fault, too I mean, I should have just admitted Luke wasn’t there!" I smile ruefully "It would have been a lot si you a hard time, I can really understand why you felt you just had to… to…" He breaks off, and takes a deep swig of his drink "Anyway Luke seeht?"

"No," I say after a pause, and force a sin to take their seats on the rows of plastic chairs At the back of the roo mobile phones, and Caspar explains to me that they’re on the line to telephone bidders

"They’re people who heard about it but couldn’t coues fairly widely, and a lot of people are interested The Vera Wang dress alone attracted a great deal of attention"