'It's a sort of cross betweenSouthern States American and West Country English. It's always beenregarded as public property and there's a lot of wildlifethere, dragonflies and so on, and wonderful water plants. Not the sort of personyou'd want to do business with. But she didn't think she would.
The nearest, shesupposed, was that she had wanted to feel desirable herselfstill, not dull, not sexless, not someone to be set aside infavour of another lovelier, more joyful body. ''Yes, well, you can't have everything. 'If it was for your husband or your kids, I can see thatwould be all right. She really couldn't face another evening ofher mother being tense and Romilly being smug.
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