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"
I
should
have
had
that
cherry
cake
,
"
said
Richard
.
"
Then
they
would
have
been
able
to
afford
another
Van
Gogh
.
"
Richard
had
met
Jessica
in
France
,
on
a
weekend
trip
to
Paris
two
years
earlier
;
had
in
fact
discovered
her
in
the
Louvre
,
trying
to
find
the
group
of
his
office
friends
who
had
organized
the
trip
.
Staring
up
at
an
immense
sculpture
,
he
had
stepped
backwards
into
Jessica
,
who
was
admiring
an
extremely
large
and
historically
important
diamond
.
He
tried
to
apologize
to
her
in
French
,
which
he
did
not
speak
,
gave
up
,
and
began
to
apologize
in
English
,
then
tried
to
apologize
in
French
for
having
to
apologize
in
English
,
until
he
noticed
that
Jessica
was
about
as
English
as
it
was
possible
for
any
one
person
to
be
.
By
this
time
she
decided
he
should
buy
her
an
expensive
French
sandwich
and
some
overpriced
carbonated
apple
juice
,
by
way
of
apology
,
and
,
well
,
that
was
the
start
of
it
all
,
really
.
He
had
never
been
able
to
convince
Jessica
that
he
wasn
’
t
the
kind
of
person
who
went
to
art
galleries
after
that
.
On
weekends
when
they
did
not
go
to
art
galleries
or
to
museums
,
Richard
would
trail
behind
Jessica
as
she
went
shopping
,
which
she
did
,
on
the
whole
,
in
affluent
Knightsbridge
,
a
short
walk
and
an
even
shorter
taxi
ride
from
her
apartment
in
a
Kensington
mews
.
Richard
would
accompany
Jessica
on
her
tours
of
such
huge
and
intimidating
emporia
as
Harrods
and
Harvey
Nichols
,
stores
where
Jessica
was
able
to
purchase
anything
,
from
jewelry
,
to
books
,
to
the
week
’
s
groceries
.
Richard
had
been
awed
by
Jessica
,
who
was
beautiful
,
and
often
quite
funny
,
and
was
certainly
going
somewhere
.
And
Jessica
saw
in
Richard
an
enormous
amount
of
potential
,
which
,
properly
harnessed
by
the
right
woman
,
would
have
made
him
the
perfect
matrimonial
accessory
.
If
only
he
were
a
little
more
focused
,
she
would
murmur
to
herself
,
and
so
she
gave
him
books
with
titles
like
Dress
for
Success
and
A
Hundred
and
Twenty
-
Five
Habits
of
Successful
Men
,
and
books
on
how
to
run
a
business
like
a
military
campaign
,
and
Richard
always
said
thank
you
,
and
always
intended
to
read
them
.
In
Harvey
Nichols
’
s
men
’
s
fashion
department
she
would
pick
out
for
him
the
kinds
of
clothes
she
thought
that
he
should
wear
—
and
he
wore
them
,
during
the
week
,
anyway
;
and
,
a
year
to
the
day
after
their
first
encounter
,
she
told
him
she
thought
it
was
time
that
they
went
shopping
for
an
engagement
ring
.
"
Why
do
you
go
out
with
her
?
"
asked
Gary
,
in
Corporate
Accounts
,
eighteen
months
later
.
"
She
’
s
terrifying
.
"
Richard
shook
his
head
.
"
She
’
s
really
sweet
,
once
you
get
to
know
her
.
"
Gary
put
down
the
plastic
troll
doll
he
had
picked
up
from
Richard
’
s
desk
.
"
I
’
m
surprised
she
still
lets
you
play
with
these
.
"
"
The
subject
has
never
come
up
,
"
said
Richard
,
picking
up
one
of
the
creatures
from
his
desk
.
It
had
a
shock
of
Day
-
Glo
orange
hair
,
and
a
slightly
baffled
expression
,
as
if
it
were
lost
.
And
the
subject
had
indeed
come
up
.
Jessica
had
,
however
,
convinced
herself
that
Richard
’
s
troll
collection
was
a
mark
of
endearing
eccentricity
,
comparable
to
Mr
.
Stockton
’
s
collection
of
angels
.
Jessica
was
in
the
process
of
organizing
a
traveling
exhibition
of
Mr
.
Stockton
’
s
angel
collection
,
and
she
had
come
to
the
conclusion
that
great
men
always
collected
something
.
In
actuality
Richard
did
not
really
collect
trolls
.
He
had
found
a
troll
on
the
sidewalk
outside
the
office
,
and
,
in
a
vain
attempt
at
injecting
a
little
personality
into
his
working
world
,
he
had
placed
it
on
his
computer
monitor
.
The
others
had
followed
over
the
next
few
months
,
gifts
from
colleagues
who
had
noticed
that
Richard
had
a
penchant
for
the
ugly
little
creatures
.
He
had
taken
the
gifts
and
positioned
them
,
strategically
,
around
his
desk
,
beside
the
telephones
and
the
framed
photograph
of
Jessica
.
