CHAPTER TWO SUDDENLY he opened his eyes again, revealing that the tension had gone. The dark moment might never have been. His next words were spoken lightly.‘You’re getting very philosophical.’‘Sorry,’ she said.‘Were you talking about yourself when you said we each live by refusing to admit the truth?’‘Well, I suppose I really knew that another woman had her eye on him, and I ought to have realised that he’d give in to flattery, no matter what he’d said to me hours before. But it was still a bit of a shock when I went to meet him at the theatre after the performance and found them together.’‘What were they doing—or needn’t I ask?’‘You needn’t ask. They were right there on the stage, stretched out on Cleopatra’s tomb, totally oblivious to anyone and anything. She was saying, “Oh, you really are Antony—a great hero!”’‘And I suppose they were—’ Dante paused delicately ‘—in a state of undress?’‘Well, he still had his little tunic on.
