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Conversation: Chapter one.
He caught my wrist suddenly as I floated back and kissed the palm of my hand hard. In a swift movement he’d drawn me down on to his lap. ’Yes, she would,' he murmured, kissing me purposefully on the mouth. ’Now stop it. We've agreed. You go to Cornwall, you take my dippy aunt's house if it hasn’t already been washed away by the sea, and you finish your book. Then you return, six weeks later, a woman of letters — and hopefully means, if they sock you the advance they've threatened — and in a matter of clays you’ll have a ring on your finger and all the bourgeois respectability that goes with being Mrs. Palmer, the doctor’s wife. Frankly, I think it's an admirable plan, and to be honest I don't really mind what you do so long as you stop burning the toast and making me drink coffee you can stand a spoon up in in Flora's chipped Groovy Chick mug.' He peered balefully into its pink depths.
'I'll have it back then, shall I'? Since you're fussy? Flora, having pounded downstairs, came through the door in her school uniform and plucked the mug from under his nose. She tasted it and made a face. ‘Ugh, you’re right, it’s vile. Mum, pretending to make real coffee by putting in three spoonfuls of instant is not going to wash with your urbane, sophisticated boyfriend, you know} She went to the sink and poured it away. *And what are all these curry cartons doing in the sink?' She poked the precarious pile with an incredulous finger. ‘No wonder it stinks in here. And stop hopping around.' She added as I hastily got off David's lap, blushing.
'You’re sharing a bed together in this house, for God’s sake, I don’t see that a cuddle at the breakfast table makes any difference.’ She grinned conspiratorially at David, clearly relishing her role as the mature observer of impulsive lovebirds. He winked good-naturedly back.
’Flora’s right. Stop behaving as if we're just playing Scrabble up there and give her a little credit- And incidentally, where exactly does my new step-daughter fit into this great summer scheme of
yours?'
I looked at him quickly; wondering for the first time if this was a veiled reproach, but his grey eyes were twinkling with amusement.
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