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e else had surfaced, obscenely, in her head,had been buried again with a furious, dark determination. 'Tom, are you all right? You've gone the most ghastlycolour. 'You have a lot to talk about,' he said, 'and you don'twant anyone in the way. Like some seedy private detective.

'Oh,' she said. ''Then allow me to say something else,' he said. 'Look at me,' he said. You sleep wherever you please.