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Just as a hobby now, you understand. He had pootled about online this morning,
Each has their own area of expertise. Steve himself (widower) is asked all the legal stuff; John Todd (lush), who used to work on the Southampton Mercury, gets asked the show business gossip; the mechanic Tony Taylor (long-term divorcé, long-term lush) takes care of all the car problems, occasionally branching out into microwave and coffee-machine repairs; and Dr. Jyoti Das (widow, alcohol tolerance building steadily) fields all and any medical questions, despite the fact she’s a doctor of medieval history.
“I was stung by a jellyfish once in Portugal, and it hurt like hell.” “You pee on it, don’t you, Jyoti?” asks Tony. “A jellyfish sting?” Dr. Jyoti Das, doctor of medieval history, nods. “Neutralizes the toxins.”
Dubonnet?”
Anytime you feel your unhappiness turning into bitterness, you have to check yourself. You can live with unhappiness, but bitterness will kill you.
want you to name your fears, Rosie,” Barb continues. “Give them wings and let them fly among us.” Amy sees Rosie close her eyes. “I fear mental and physical decline,” says Rosie. “I fear the loss of friends, and loves.” Barb bangs the gong after each fear. “I fear being misunderstood,” says Rosie. “Being seen as an inconsequential person, a joke. I fear being forgotten. I fear being remembered for hair and lipstick and leopard print, and sunglasses, and not for what I worked for, and what I am proud of.”
“I fear connection,” says Rosie, “and I fear a lack of connection. I fear that perhaps I am not real. That I have been imagined as so many things by so many people that my soul is now in them, and no longer in myself.”
“I fear being small,” says Rosie. “Being vulnerable, being powerless. I refuse to fear death, but I do fear life.”
44 Amy has been in mortal danger in many countries over the last few years, but St. Lucia has to be one of the most beautiful. “Only country in the world named after a woman,” Rosie tells her.
The murder business is a relationships business.
Years ago, when Adam was more junior, he was on a desk that dealt almost exclusively in “options.” If you think a particular stock is going to rise in the future, you simply make a bet, a “call option,” allowing you to buy that stock at a predetermined price at a future date. He had explained this to Amy, in the context of their relationship. They could both take out a “call option” on each other, if they felt their love was likely to grow, but they didn’t currently have the emotional bandwidth to commit to each other.
