dison's gentlemanly voice, that Louise had takenan overdose and was in hospital, had horrified her almostbeyond anything. This is Tom Fleming's secretary. 'It was indeed. 'So,' Octavia said, finally, sipping at her virtually untouchedchardonnay.
She went, ratherreluctantly, to find Ritz and Serena, but they seemed tohave called a truce and were chatting f But then she thought of Octavia's grief if anything shouldhappen to her beloved father, if she wasn't there; andthought of him all alone in the hospital, nobody to be withhim, nobody he cared about. ''No, no,' she said (miraculously hungry suddenly), 'there'sabsolutely no rush. I'llcall you in the morning, tell you how he is.
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