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I said Ididn't think you could, but--'Octavia sometimes thought that Sarah Jane Carstairs, herawesomely efficient secretary, would make a much betterjob of being Mrs Tom Fleming. It sounded like afairy story to me. 'He had made this statement on the back of a bottle and ahalf of claret; but Marianne had always felt that it wasactually terrifyingly true. 'Just shut up, will you?'She said nothing, just leaned on the kitchen table,looking at the picture, then at him, smiling.

I can't wait. ''Now who on earth told you that? If it was Zoe--''It wasn't Zoe,' said Octavia smoothly. Don't you find?''Yes, I like him very much. I wouldn'tmind quite so much if he actually wanted it.