'Want to tell us aboutthe new boyfriend now?''Only that he's very nice and I think you'll like him,' saidMarianne, smiling at them, feeling herself relax. Her relationship with her father wasusually much too serious a subject for him to be able to jokeabout. Zoe seemed particularly pleased to be home. 'Felix Miller woke up feeling much better, apart from atouch of indigestion -- his own fault, no doubt, having asecond helping of Mrs Harrington's mousse.
What was Zoe doing here, looking after Minty, forheaven's sake?An official had come down the steps, was helping Zoe topull the buggy up them backwards. It'syour mum, love. The early days had been -- asTom described it when he had had a few glasses of wine toomany -- 'good for the bowels: we'd both taken out enormous second mortgages and bank loans. 'It's time you admitted,' he said again, 'that you want togo to bed with me.
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