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I'm afraid there really doesn't seem to be analternative. There was anote on the desk: to Bob Macintosh. I mean, I reckonChristie's might well want her. She wondered if she dared leave herthere while she did a quick recce; she'd have to.

Alix worked much more silently than Jonty, playedmusic she couldn't recognise, and apart from issuingincreasingly abrupt instructions, hardl Of course he did. It had been, as always,difficult, the men uneasy together; after lunch Octavia hadproposed a walk, hoping that Tom and Sandy woulddecline, but they had both said it was exactly what theyneeded. CHAPTER 44'I want a divorce,' she said.