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Anna watched as her husband folded up The Times, placed it on the table in front of him and shook his head

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‘I’d love to,’ said Robert, ‘but I’m afraid I have to make several phone calls’

‘On a Saturdayat the laden sideboard, filling her plate for a second time

‘Afraid so,’ replied Robert ‘You see, criminals don’t work a five-day, forty-hour week, so they don’t expect their lawyers to do so either’ Anna didn’t laugh After all, she had heard him make the same observation every Saturday for the past seven years

Robert rose frolanced towards his wife and said, ‘If you need me, my dear, I’ll be in my bedroom’

Anna nodded and waited for him to leave the room

She was about to return to her letter when she noticed that Robert had left his glasses on the table She would take theh to him as soon as she had finished breakfast She placed the letter on the table in front of her and turned to the second page

‘Let me tell you what I have planned for our anniversary weekend while the prune is away at his conference in Leeds I’ve booked us back into the Lygon Arms, so we’ll be in the saether This tie of atmosphere once we have returned from Stratford to the privacy of our room in Broadway

‘I want to be tied up to a four-poster bed, with you standing over eant’s uniforht black outfit with silver buttons down the front, which you will undo slowly to reveal a black bra And, , you’re not to release me until I have made you screaround carpark in Mayfair

‘Until then,

‘Your loving Oberon’

Anna raised her head and set her hands on a police sergeant’s unifore and read the letter again when she noticed the PS

‘PS I wonder what the prune is up to right now’