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Of course shehad yet to do it, to make the confrontation; but she would. ''Can I see him?''Are you a relation?''Not exactly. 'I see,' said Zoe. ''I've got one idea,' said Aubrey.

She had done her nails, was evenwearing lipstick. Let me speak to her, willyou?'Zoe was subdued, but calm. and then, as if that was not enough forher to bear, the appalling episode with Serena Fox and herlesbian lover. lutelyimpossible, you'll just have to tell them, Tom, say of courseI can't come, they can't expect it.