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“It’s OK” I smile at her “You don’t have to do that”

“Actually…” Kate looks aard “I’m a bit ravenous I haven’t had a lunch break yet”

“Oh God!” I say, appalled “Go! Have lunch! You’ll starve!”

Kate leaps up, bashing her head on an open file drawer, and pulls her bag down off a high shelf The minute she’s closed the door behind her, Sadie comes over to my desk

“So” She perches on the edge and regards me expectantly

“What is it?”

“Are you going to ring him?”

“Who?”

“Hiht over my computer “Him!”

“Youhilance “Do you have no idea how things work? If he wants to ring, he can ring” Which he won’t in a million years , I silently add

I delete a few e on top of a filing cabinet, staring fixedly at the phone As she sees , she jumps and quickly looks away

“Noho’s obsessing over a

“I’htily

“If you watch the phone, it doesn’t ring Don’t you know anything?”

Sadie’s eyes flash angrily atthe blinds cord, as though she wants to analyze every fiber Then she wanders over to the oppositeThen she looks at the phone again

I could really do without a lovelorn ghost trailing aroundto work

“Why don’t you go sightseeing?” I suggest “You could look at the gherkin building, or go to Harrods…”

“I’ve been to Harrods” She wrinkles her nose “It looks very peculiar these days”

I’ walk in Hyde Park, when , Sadie is by erly as I check the display

“Is it him? Is it him?”

“I don’t know the nu “Could be anyone”

“It’s hio to the Savoy for cocktails”

“Are you crazy? I’ that!”