''Your mother,' said Ritz, smiling at her, 'is a womanafter my own heart. As Octavia walked out of her office, bracing herself forwhat was undoubtedly going to be a difficult lunchtimemeeting, a loud shout of 'Shit!' came from the next office. Louise saw that, saw it as a threatand her face changed again, become harder, cunning. 'He sat down, started loosening his tie.
But it would be madness to get into arelationship that wasn't tenable. The one my father set up for me. Can't you see how humiliating, how appalling it all is?What a failure I feel? A wretched, miserable failure . 'Does he? Look, it's nothing to do with me, butshouldn't you phone him, tell him what's happened?' 'Yes, I suppose so.
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