‘You just wait a few weeks,’ he had said. ‘Brenda will come back. She’ll soon get sick of Beaver.’ ‘But I don’t want her back.’ ‘I know just how you feel, but it doesn’t do to be medieval about it. If Brenda hadn’t been upset at John’s death this need never have come to a crisis. Why, last year Marjorie was going everywhere with that ass Robin Beaseley. She was mad about him at the time, but I pretended not to notice and it all blew over. If I were you I should refuse to recognize that anything has happened.’
