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‘How very decent of him,’ Louise Sadler said, in her usual understated ot the impression that he was prepared to support you financially, but personally finding a house he thought you would like’

‘It’s nothing at all like that, Mother,’ Susie rushed in hastily

To the outsider it ht seem beyond the call of duty, but she knew better She had seen just how overwhel was personally at stake for him

Super, which he loathed, to placate her because he wanted her in his bed

A house he knew she would like because she was having his baby, and there was no way he was going to let her remain in the hovel or, worse, retreat up to Yorkshire, miles away from his sphere of influence Not with his child No way

‘The car—yes, I can fully understand that, darling You really would need so s for this dream house of yours?’

‘He eave theue idea and allowed them to run with it You can do that when money is no object And I never said that it wasat the keys to the house, which lay on the sofa next to her ‘My dream house would never be in London’

‘Well, he’s been very perceptive, ets close’

‘Luck’

‘It took Daddy and I ages to find the flat’

‘We don’t have the sort of relationship where he pops down to the estate agency so that he can sit with thelossy brochures of houses for me,’ Susie said heavily

She felt that it was time to address certain assue inaccuracies

‘Sergio and I had lots of fun, Mother, but it would have fizzled out if thisthis situation hadn’t occurred’