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"I have to leave," she says, starting to get up

"I’ on to her arm "I’ll pretend I’o"

"Baby, come on-"

"It’s imperative that you callaway from the table "Do you knohat ’imperative’ means?"

"That I"-I squint up at her-"that I have to call you after dinner?"

"Okay," she says, se?"

"There’s no ti back along with ers,roolimpse of a diabetic seaman? I a this-"

"Tell the quickly out of the restaurant

I watch as she disappears down a corridor, then notice a nearby waiter who takes in the expression onwithLorrie’s chair out

"Where did your friend go?" Lorrie asks, sitting down

"I don’t know," I sigh "She’s freaking out about so"

"I hope we didn’t upset her," Lorrie says

"Darling, eat your caviar," Stephen says

Later the Wallaces insist I join them at a karaoke party in Club Lido but I’ out of focus in front of my eyes and before I bolt for old-rimmed plate, raspberries, blueberries, two scoops of vanillaa chocolate bonsai tree

Chapter Eleven

Back in my room pretty much totally sloshed I dial Marina Gibson’s cabin but there’s no answer When I ask the operator to ht roo up on her and then scrounge around theit out of the bottle, foa out of the head all over my hands which I wipe off on my complimentary QE2 bathrobe I look for a copy of the script, can’t find it, give up, tuarettes, the view from the prow of the ship on the TV screen als