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She should have known that happiness was as fragile as tireedy where either was concerned
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
THE idyll lasted for athis time, they visited a fun fair; Quinn won a lop-eared rabbit on the shooting range and held Magenta tight when they rocketed through the candy-floss-scented air Playing it serious, they went to an art gallery one day and to a concert the next, before Quinn changed the pace, taking her down into a cellar for so beat rang off the walls along with the sweat
Switching styles, he escorted her to an up-town disco where they danced on a ht they saw Breakfast at Tiffany’s at the cinema with an exquisitely beautiful Audrey Hepburn in the lead One evening they decided to stay at ho Goldie Hawn playing the ditsy blonde in Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-in Then late one night they discovered a ht cab stand after the jazz club, sharing anecdotes with friendly cabbies as they licked ers
She was falling in love, Magenta realised as Quinn walked her ho the embankment, where the river Thames stretched wide and silent at their side like a black-satin ribbon sprinkled with stars
It was a wild, funny, tender, rollercoaster tiro tomorroas Christmas Eve, a time for presents, fun and celebration
It was definitely not a tie of the sink in the ladies’ roo to pass out or be sick
I’ed reflection in the mirror
It had only been the one tih And she was sure She had never beenQuinn’s baby
But how could this happen in a dream-world?
Anything could happen in a dreah dreams didn’t usually feel as realistic as this, nor did they usually last as long She was growing increasingly concerned—or was that hopeful?—that perhaps she really was in the sixties There was no need for her to buy a pregnancy kit to confires in her body had been swift and all-consu She was late, sick and,sense that she wasn’t alone in her body any longer, a fact which thrilled her beyond belief She felt instantly protective of the tiny life inside her, even though motherhood wasn’t part of her life plan, or even her dreao, but she had never asked anything of Quinn and she didn’t intend to start now