My God, they even called me Katharine, and people said how sweet that was.’‘Imagine if you’d been a boy,’ Liam said. ‘It could have been a damned sight worse. Do you think you’d have been Pet for short?’‘Oh, God,’ she said, with a ghost of a laugh. ‘I never thought of that. Anyway, after Belinda told me, I refused to be Katharine with a K any more. I changed to Catherine with a C instead.’‘And to the Cat that walks by herself?’‘No.’ She grimaced, shaking her head. ‘That came later.’‘And what did your parents say about the change of initial? Did they never ask why?’‘I doubt they even noticed.’ She realised he was still holding her, and freed herself gently. ‘My aunt and uncle brought me up, and they were concerned, I know. But David and Vanessa were rarely around. Besides, the marriage was just starting to be in trouble, and they had more important considerations, anyway.’‘Debatable,’ he said. He paused. ‘As a matter of fact, I saw them in that production of The Taming of the Shrew, when I was at school.’ He shook his head.
