I spoke to Caroline lastnight, she's bringing Minty back tomorrow. ''No, it's cool. I said Ididn't think you could, but--'Octavia sometimes thought that Sarah Jane Carstairs, herawesomely efficient secretary, would make a much betterjob of being Mrs Tom Fleming. One of the manywonderful things, about Bartles House was that it was bigenough to allow for a variation in lifestyle.
'Sorry?''I said you must be feeling pretty good. But maybe this was the exception. 'Yes?'He looked rather nervous; Octavia wondered wildly ifhe was going to make it easy for her, tell her he wanted adivorce, had seen his own solicitor. With the same ghastly result.
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