From the moment he arrived Penny sensed the change in him, but though he was snappish and aloof with her there was no question it was Marielle he was gunning for. Penny never did find out what passed between them; all she knew was that Marielle continued to strut about the place like Miss Fleet Street herself, giving orders, crushing egos and generally getting up everyone's nose. She didn't appear in the least bit bothered by the severe pressure they were under from the press to explain the advice that had been printed in their agony column. It was as though she had played no part in it at all. Fortunately no one seemed to have got wind of the fact that some unhappy, unstable woman had acted upon the advice and the handling of the woman and her husband was left to David to sort out. This he did, by parting with an unspecified sum of money on the condition that no mention of it ever reached the papers. To Penny's surprise she received no reproach from David herself, when she'd expected him at the very least to have told her not to be so careless as to leave that sort of thing lying around in the future.
