“I came here with Janey,” Fen overheard Billy saying to Rupert. On present form, Fen, Rupert and Ivor Braine were certain to be part of the team. She drifted rather unsteadily across the ballroom and out through one of the side doors, looking for Jake to say goodnight. ”“The only name and address I was after,” said Rupert, mimicking her accent again, ‘was yours.
But with six of them hanging on, he could do nothing. One hip was obviously very painful. The carpet men worked overtime, the dogs sat in a martyred row on the tintacked underfelt, and everything was finished and tidied away by the eve of the party, when Rupert and Billy were due home. She couldn’t tell Billy about Kev because he hadn’t rung, which boded ill too.
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