And Nicola was pregnant. Just. She had not yet told Matthew because she wanted to be a little further on before she did so. So far she had managed to contain the throwing-up to times when he was not around but it had not worked so well at work and Barbara had guessed – rig...
He had come over to see Oscar and Amy – in that order – and had enthused over one of them. He had taken the news that Amy had resigned from her job and was moving into Snape House badly, even though Amy felt he should be bloody glad that she was going to sort things out. It was all very well him ...
He often spent days away on business and she was getting used to that, spending the time when he was away at her mother’s, feeling increasingly guilty that she was just using her mother’s hospitality. He was due back this evening, business concluded successfully according to his phone call, so, h...