''Is that what you want from women, uncritical adulation?' Rupert grinned. He swung his feet off the table and stood up as Taggie came in. She always found train journeys unnerving, having to read all the strange station names and the platform directions and the train times. Morally this is all wrong; governmentally it is all right.
' Then, seeing the rage on Rupert's face, 'Haven't you forgotten your kids' birthdays?''No yes,I suppose so, but Helen always remembers. ' Very gently he smoothed a tendril of dark hair behind her ear and stroked her rigid, quivering cheek. He, like Monica, was surreptitiously watching his wife flirting with Bas, and experiencing a tightness round his heart, a jealousy never felt when he wasmarried to Winifred. 'Funnily enough, I've just been trying on all my old clothes.
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