'Octavia stared at her in silence, then she reached out forher glass. She was quite big in the States. Just - a bit much. And there was another, shewas gorgeous, she looked just like Naomi Campbell.
'It was tactless of me. It was as if the dress was her connectionwith familiarity, safety, places and people she knew. She looked at him, hating him, filled with the newresentment that he had avoided all the traumas of Gideon'saccident. He tried at first to comfort her, to hold her, but shepushed him away, stood there, crying, arms hanging at hersides, fists clenched.
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