The programme (addressed to ‘colleges and schools’) was a member of that increasingly popular family of socio-biological hybrids sired by The Naked Ape. The night before, he and Eleanor had made no serious attempt to navigate the murky waters now separating them. For his part, Paul was still reluctant to set out, in case a misjudged word or sentiment raised an emotional gale, too fierce to give any raft of reason the slightest chance of survival. Eleanor might have felt the same; since, after breakfast, she had taken herself off to wash her hair. Being resolutely determined not to lose her, Paul considered a measure of appeasement inescapable. So what could he offer Eleanor without humiliation? To stop seeing Gemma? To abandon Roy? To have nothing to do with the film from now on? Plainly, in order to salvage anything, he would have to agree to part company with Gemma; so agree he would, reluctantly, and under threat (but knowing, that short of twenty-four hour surveillance, enforcement would be impossible).
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