The Smile of a Ghost
“‘She’s rung here twice already. Claiming your answering machine isn’t switched on.’ ‘Can’t believe how inefficient I am sometimes.’ Merrily dumped her bag on the desk, pulled out the chair opposite Sophie, who was addressing an envelope by hand with a fountain pen. Glasses on the tip of her nose, Sophie put the envelope in a tray, for the ink to dry, and started on another.
They’d talked on the phone soon after nine, when Jane, clear-eyed and superficially undamaged by minimal sleep, had carrie...d off a slice of toast and marmalade to the bus stop. Merrily had told Jane a certain amount, not everything, about last night. She’d told Sophie – because there were probably confessionals less secure than this office – the whole situation. More or less.
‘Oh yes,’ Sophie said. ‘On the filing cabinet – this morning’s Daily Mail.’ ‘Oh.’ The paper was folded at page five and a fuzzy picture of Jemima Pegler at a party, collapsed in laughter, with two other girls holding her up.MoreLess
They’d talked on the phone soon after nine, when Jane, clear-eyed and superficially undamaged by minimal sleep, had carrie...d off a slice of toast and marmalade to the bus stop. Merrily had told Jane a certain amount, not everything, about last night. She’d told Sophie – because there were probably confessionals less secure than this office – the whole situation. More or less.
‘Oh yes,’ Sophie said. ‘On the filing cabinet – this morning’s Daily Mail.’ ‘Oh.’ The paper was folded at page five and a fuzzy picture of Jemima Pegler at a party, collapsed in laughter, with two other girls holding her up.MoreLess
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