'Guilt ripped through Octavia; was she really so fraught atthe office she couldn't talk to her best friend about such athing? Maybe she was. And then havingendured the rigours of a brief press conference andwitnessing the arrest of a totally silent, oddly Well,didn't you? Answer me. 'How are you, Sandy?' shesaid.
Excellent. Lucky it had been there; he'd hadthe box, had locked it in his safe, might well have seen it. Now that the moment had actually arrived, shefelt very sick, tempted just to leave again, go home. How could she have done that,stayed away from Minty just because she didn't want to seeCaroline?'I'm such a lousy mother,' she said.
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