She had rung Roxanne’s mobile from a public call box at the railway station and asked if they could meet. It was all unpleasantly surreptitious, but Grace couldn’t rest until she knew precisely what she had or hadn’t said the other night at the Blue Bar. Unfamiliar with th...
‘It’s Patrice’s fortieth birthday a couple of weeks beforehand,’ she explained. ‘I’m trying to persuade him to celebrate, so, if we have a party, maybe you’ll come over here instead?’ ‘Possibly,’ said Stella, a little stiffly. ‘Though it’s not easy to get the extra time off around Christmas. We g...