”“And I’m squeaky clean,” said Jake, getting up. ”The piece you wrote about me, it was so kind, and ludicrously flattering. Fen, as their prime target, had been absolutely knocked sideways by the news. She missed him, but subconsciously she built up other resources.
“She’s like a wet log fire. For a dreadful moment she’d thought she’d found the wrong copse or that he wasn’t coming. “I can’t understand this bloody book,” he yelled back into the room. Then he spoke to Hardy and Hardy put one foot forward and bowed low to the Prince and the Princess and the President and the crowd burst into ecstatic, charmed applause.
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