'Did you know when wewere all at Ascot? Is that why you were upset that day?''Yes,' said Octavia, flinching from the memory. ''Take Aubrey. ' Tom's voice was at itseasiest, his smile its most professionally engaging. She had no recollection of having amother; but she thought, in that moment, that if she had,she would have liked her to be exactly like Marianne.
''Darling. Are you in tonight?''No. To have Octavia, albeit notionally, at a business pitch, washugely helpful; her high profile not only as a hugelysuccessful businesswoman, but also in a field of apparentmoral probity. She struggled to be tactful, allowed him one of thehideous ones -- brilliantly patterned, short sleeved - andthen steered him towards a striped Ralph Lauren, in pinkand white.
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