“Charlie was glad of its half light but wasn’t concerned at some visible surprise that Popov wasn’t accompanied by Petr Gusev. To reinforce the point he said so as he greeted them and used the word surprise at the same time as saying he was delighted to see her, which he was, although he needed to think a lot more about the circumstances before he was sure about that. Natalia’s second uncertainty was to be welcomed directly inside the apartment by Hillary Jamieson. The American girl had also exp...ected another man and there was momentary, first-meeting hesitancy which Charlie thought easily overcame any outward difficulty. Inwardly there was a lot of conflicting feelings trying to get to the forefront of Charlie’s mind. Anger was chief among them, which he refused, because at that stage he wasn’t sure he had anything to be angry about and in any case anger never helped rational thinking. So what was it rational to think? Viewed in an objectively straight line, Aleksai Semenovich Popov had accepted a social invitation for himself and the woman he was shortly to many, not on behalf of himself and a Militia colonel.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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