Incredible. Nico called her half a dozen times a day now,to tell her she was beautiful, that he adored her, that heloved her, that he want Louise had been charmed by the protectiveness and did not discover the tendency to patronise until it wastoo late. ''She says she's been talking to the local paper.
Oh, and let me find you a clean shirt. She never told her mother what hehad said to her, but she emerged from the drawing roomwhite faced and shaking, and ran up the stairs to her room. ''I thought you were very fond of Tom. Apart from a basic incompatibility?''The real thing is,' he said simply, after a long pause,'you're still in love with your husband.
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