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Not at all. 'Tom, are you all right? You've gone the most ghastlycolour. Yes, she loved it. He picked up the phone.

'It struck Octavia as a slightly strange thing to say. Octavia went into her bedroom and changed into someleggings and a sweatshirt and then walked very slowly alongthe corridor to her study. She's jumpy. ''We've both had much too much to drink already,' saidMarianne.