With this in mind, I glanced beside me at Simon. I’d told his mother he should have the opportunity of comparing me to other women so he didn’t settle on me like the nurse in The Pirates of Penzance, but this level of competition was hardly fair: beauties like this were not to be met with every day! I would have to make mention of this to him later. But there was no trace of the slack-jawed admiration I’d expected. Instead, he looked a little displeased.
