''I couldn't,' faltered Maud. ''We bloody won't. 'Come back,' roared Declan. 'How about lunch today?' he said, wading straight in.
His was the one that mattered. 'At the party everyone kept coming up and saying how marvellous she'd been, but she still felt curiously detached, as though nothing could dent her now. 'Back in the conservatory, Maud was being heavily chatted up by Bas. Patrick, Declan reflected, was a bloody sight better at getting down to things than he was.
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