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I did not write that story in the book quite as it happened, hereflected once, many years later. Tony joinedin. It was not just Tony who thought he'd behaved appallingly. 'No distance at all.

She had been so touched that he'd driven all the way down to Cotchester on that last night, and that after he'd made love to her he hadn't fall Taggie and Patrick made sure he was never alone, as he seemed to sink deeper and deeper into depression, constantly vacillating between loathing Maud for betraying him and longing to have her back. He also took them out to a splendid lunch at The Dog and Trumpet outside Cotchester, whose manager subsequently barred anyone from Corinium Television from ever crossing the threshold again. s havingdeparted from the idea of frank and unrestricted confession to exalthimself as a hero-a statement altogether unwarranted, an