I'm sorry to have disturbed you. 'Good morning, Felix. 'That was clever of her,' she said now to Tom, 'veryclever. As soon as she was oldenough, she would do the same for him; he was plagued bymigraine and he said the sweet drink helped him.
Hardlysurprising, she thought, that he'd had the heart attack; firstthe trouble with his daughter, the upset with Mrs Muirhead,all the business worries. He had hardly slept; an extraordinary noise,shrill, insistent, which Octavia had said was the tree frogs'calling for sex', had filled the hot night, replaced now bythe sweet throbbing of birdsong. Losing a client was unfortunate, serious even,but not grounds for having lengthy and noisy hysterics. Itwas quite a nice idea, she supposed, but the loo didn't seemthe right place for it; you were hardly at your best.
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