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‘What was he doing here?’

‘Don’t you yell at me!’

They were yelling at each other, neither listening to the other or answering

‘Oh, for God’s sake!’ Steve shouldered his way into the roo her bodily aside to do it

‘Get out!’ she yelled

‘Not until you’ve toldhere!’

‘Talking We were talking’

Suspicions began to colour hiswhat he had thought when he saw the way Gowrie looked at her during the press conference yesterday afternoon So much had happened since; his first impressions had been overlaid by a hundred others, but now he said curtly, ‘You are his mistress, aren’t you?’

‘Oh, for God’s sake!’ She walked away towards theand looked out at the cloudy sky, the geometric skyline, roofs, towers, pinnacles, and between thee

He watched her warht of it in Gowrie’s ar at her bed he saw the tumbled sheets and his stomach heaved ‘Have you just had sex with him?’

‘You’ve got a nasty, dirty little inning to annoy hinored like that She couldn’t even be bothered to look at hie hi with awareness of her – how could she be so totally unconscious of him?

‘So on between you and Gowrie Don’t bother to lie And soled your apartment? Somebody wrecked the place, tore it to pieces Don’t try to kid me they were both coincidences’

She turned then; he saw a shudder run down her throat ‘Wrecked the apartment?’ Her face hite as scraped bone

He wished he hadn’t told her, but too late now; andout of his overcoat, he dropped it on a chair to give himself tily

‘Look, Sophie, you are fishing in dangerous waters Gowrie is an ambitious man with a lot to lose If you’re wise you’ll stay away frohter allRepublican, he’s worked with Gowrie for years, Dad knohat sort of guy the , visibly hesitating, then said offhandedly, ‘For instance, I knew a guy once as in love with Gowrie’s daughter, but Gowrie didn’t think he was good enough for her, he didn’t have the right connections, or the hter, so he saw to it that she married someone else, someone Gowrie approved of The ’