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She looked at it and recognised it as the book he’d been writing in on the boat

He skie he wanted ‘I wrote in this the day you told nant And the day after we met And loads of other times too Here—read’

He opened it and handed it to her She read what he had written in his decisive handwriting

What a night!

Arturo is hopefully going to land in our lap, and I discovered a love of ballet

OK, a love of a ballet dancer

Met a woman and almost fell for her Beautiful, sensitive, sensual I’

First tiised Alive Good times

He took the book back, skiain

Can’t get this woman out of my mind

‘So you can’t pretend that this is all fake This is the start of so wonderful’

He looked at her with such kindness in his eyes, a kindness and warmth that she’d never seen froht in the darkness—it felt as if she was being led in fro

‘You say that now, but you’re hardly going to be here to be part of it You’re going to be away all the ti out the knives in your back that Claudio will be sticking in’

He shook his head, allinto a river

‘We’ve still got a lot to talk about, butmarried to the job are over I don’t want to end up like h that wasn’t just about the job If Claudio hadn’t been so in love with him none of this would have happened’