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Pride, however, did entail roughing it in a not particularly great part of London and having to put up with a good-natured but lazy landlord who didn’t see a proble and appliances that only worked when they felt like it

‘And yet you’re here?’

‘Soot to live a little’ Susie blushed and looked away ‘I should have done what I alanted to do,’ she said, staring off into the distance ‘Ia career path that just wasn’t for you?’

She had been eighteenwith no interest in going to universityand the family consensus had been that a secretarial career would at least provide a steady inco out at a future date The unspoken conclusion had been that she was just not acadeh for much else

‘No’

‘You mean you’ve always knohat you wanted to do with your life? Where you wanted to go and how to get there?’

‘Circu us down an inevitable road,’ Sergioin this abstract conversation

‘What does that mean?’

‘So you were “sucked into” beco a secretary?’

Susie duly noted his avoidance of her question—and yet he had sounded, just then, as though he had been speaking from experiencewhat experience?

‘It see that made sense had see her ground and pursuing a career in fine art

‘But in retrospect it was the biggest s that are done because they ?’

‘That’s so true!’ Susie leaned forward She laughed, delighted that he had caught on so quickly, had alhts in a handful of words ‘You’re very insightful,’ she murmured shyly

Sergio raised his eyebrows Insightful? One adjective that had never before been applied to him