Kissing the Gunner's Daughter
“Davina used to say jeans were a uniform and ihould be used as such, for work. The others were all in the serre having drinks."* "In the what?""The serre. It's French for 'greenhouse', it's Miat we always called it. It sounds better than Conservatory', don't you think?"* Wexford thought it sounded pretentious but >Jte said nothing.* "We always had drinks in there or in the iwing room. Just sherry, you know, or orange ice or fizzy water. I always had fizzy water so did my mother. Davina was talki...ng Hit going to Glyndebourne; she is -- was125-- a member or a friend or whatever and she always went three times a year. Everything like that she went to, Aldeburgh, the Edinburgh Festival, Salzburg. Anyway, her tickets had come. She was asking Harvey about what she should order for dinner. You have to order your dinner months in advance if you don't want to picnic. We never did picnic, it would be so awful if it rained."They were still talking about that when Brenda put her head round the door and said dinner was in the dining room and she was off.MoreLess
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