Minty was asleep now; she had taken the drink greedily,and then eaten a biscuit Louise had given her. ''Yes, of course. You've let those children run rings round you,encouraged them to do exactly what they want, and now--''I'm sorry, Felix,' said Marianne, 'but I really don't thinkI want to listen to this. She had every justification for sayinganything at all to him, she knew.
The phone rang: please, God, let that be Octavia, sayingshe was coming home. Mightshe be at the cottage?''Do you think I haven't tried there?' he said. Felix had forgotten, when he made the arrangement tohave dinner with Octavia, that he had promised to takeMarianne away for the weekend. It was just that shenurtured a dream of having him move to London to takeup a career there.
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