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"
I
only
asked
him
to
come
down
to
Taplow
because
I
thought
it
would
be
nice
for
you
to
have
a
boy
of
that
age
to
play
around
with
.
"
"
It
was
.
"
There
was
in
his
eyes
a
faint
twinkle
of
amusement
.
She
felt
desperate
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She
would
have
liked
to
ask
him
what
he
was
grinning
at
,
but
dared
not
;
for
she
knew
;
he
was
not
angry
with
her
,
she
could
have
borne
that
,
he
was
merely
diverted
.
She
was
bitterly
hurt
.
She
would
have
cried
,
but
that
he
would
only
laugh
.
And
what
could
she
say
to
him
?
He
believed
nothing
she
said
.
Acting
!
For
once
she
was
at
a
loss
how
to
cope
with
a
situation
.
She
was
up
against
something
that
she
did
not
know
,
something
mysterious
and
rather
frightening
.
Could
that
be
reality
?
At
that
moment
they
heard
a
car
drive
up
.
"
There
s
your
father
,
"
she
exclaimed
.
What
a
relief
!
The
scene
was
intolerable
,
and
she
was
thankful
that
his
arrival
must
end
it
.
In
a
moment
Michael
,
very
hearty
,
with
his
chin
thrust
out
and
his
belly
pulled
in
,
looking
for
all
his
fifty
odd
years
incredibly
handsome
,
burst
into
the
room
and
,
in
his
manly
way
,
thrust
out
his
hand
to
greet
,
after
a
six
months
absence
,
his
only
begotten
son
.
Three
days
later
Roger
went
up
to
Scotland
.
By
the
exercise
of
some
ingenuity
Julia
had
managed
that
they
should
not
again
spend
any
length
of
time
alone
together
.
When
they
happened
to
be
by
themselves
for
a
few
minutes
they
talked
of
indifferent
things
.
Julia
was
not
really
sorry
to
see
him
go
.
She
could
not
dismiss
from
her
mind
the
curious
conversation
she
had
had
with
him
.
There
was
one
point
in
particular
that
unaccountably
worried
her
;
this
was
his
suggestion
that
if
she
went
into
an
empty
room
and
someone
suddenly
opened
the
door
there
would
be
nobody
there
.
It
made
her
feel
very
uncomfortable
.
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"
I
never
set
out
to
be
a
raving
beauty
,
but
the
one
thing
no
one
has
ever
denied
me
is
personality
.
It
s
absurd
to
pretend
that
because
I
can
play
a
hundred
different
parts
in
a
hundred
different
ways
I
haven
t
got
an
individuality
of
my
own
.
I
can
do
that
because
I
m
a
bloody
good
actress
.
"
She
tried
to
think
what
happened
to
her
when
she
went
alone
into
an
empty
room
.
"
But
I
never
am
alone
,
even
in
an
empty
room
.
There
s
always
Michael
,
or
Evie
,
or
Charles
,
or
the
public
;
not
in
the
flesh
,
of
course
,
but
in
the
spirit
,
as
it
were
.
I
must
speak
to
Charles
about
Roger
.
"