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‘He was doing this and that You know Well, actually, you probably don’t I can’t iine you were ever someone who just did this and that’

‘I ad out a few occupations for size before settling on the right one Life is too short for wrong turnings’ The only wrong turning he had everacross the rooel and, for a ht she had the personality to match She hadn’t She had wanted him, desired him, tantalised hie error of judgement with her and he felt bitterly proud that he could be sitting here, conducting a conversation with her for all the world as though they had parted on good terms

It was, he told hied to subdue the basic urge for revenge that had blinded hio Not only that, but he could engage in conversation about her lover Of course, it helped that he had Georgina

He realised guiltily that his fiancée hadn’t crossed histhe house

‘Sos before you find the right one,’ Francesca said, thinking of all the wrong turnings she had taken in her past

‘Are you referring to us?’ Angelo asked silkily and she flushed

‘No, of course not!’

‘Then what? Your past? A time before you met me?’

‘No,’ she said quickly ‘You’re right I was referring to us I ed to be h ‘And Georgina is just right for you, Angelo’

‘In ay?’

‘Well, she’s beautiful and well-educated and…sophisticated…’

‘And you were none of those things?’

‘We’re not talking about me’ The little lies she had told came back in a rush The non-existent education, and her sophistication had been of the purely surface sort A few scratches and under the glitter was the hard, ugly metal Not that he had ever known that ‘How did youthe subject

‘At a party given by mutual friends’