It was horrible. ”He held out his glass for Rupert to fill up. Then Rupert chinked his glass against hers and, draining it, said, “Let’s go to bed. She’d have to put him in her novel, then she could dream about him.
She was jealous of Fen, and she was fed up with Suzy going on about how attractive Jake was, and assuming that hemust be madly in love with Tory not to submit to Suzy’s charms. Her rather stolid husband had paid her a great deal of alimony, but when he inconveniently died, he had left all his money, unaccountably, in trust for Tory. All the girls at the party were certainly falling over themselves to offer him smoked salmon and asparagus rolls and fill up his glass with champagne. ”Swindle trotted dejectedly into the ring, rolling-eyed and 20 thin-legged, like a horse in a medieval tapestry.
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