'Mum seems a bit down,' said Zoe to Marc later. ''You'll have to share me with the twins. However, can we really be that picky? If he's prepared tocome up with the cash. Lucky it had been there; he'd hadthe box, had locked it in his safe, might well have seen it.
Look, Tomtells me he's too busy to come down, would you like meto? I'm more than happy to, I hate to think of you copingall on your own down there. Here she could andwould stay; no one could find her, no one trouble her, untilshe wished to be found and troubled. Maybe it was one of those wretched youngpeople trying to persuade her to buy a bunch of dusters forsome monstrous amount of money. No, of course I haven't told her.
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