you? Thank goodness Philly talked her in-laws into letting you “sit” their apartment for the summer. I just wish you could have had my spare room. Only Aunt Cora has saddled me with visitors for the summer.’
‘It is her apartment, Sophie.’ And, much as she loved Sophie, she was in London to work. She’d get a lot more of that done in the quiet of the McBrides’ apartment.
‘I suppose. And jolly lucky in the circumstances.’
That, Ginny thought, rather depended upon your point of view.
But it would be okay, she reassured herself. By now Mallory would have left for his delayed weekend in the country. All she had to do was get past Mrs Figgis and her duster. Which actually might not be that difficult…
‘Hector,’ she said, as she dropped her cellphone into her bag. ‘You’re back on.’
‘Richard?’
Richard Mallory looked up from the pad on which he’d been doodling a hamster. Wearing outsize spectacles. A slightly dishevelled hamster with a twig dangling over one ear and her cheeks aflame…
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