She sighed. ‘We’ve known each other a long time, Dex.’ ‘I know. I just thought it might be a good idea. Dex and Em, Em and Dex, the two of us. Just try it for a while, see how it worked. I had thought that’s what you wanted too.’ ‘It is. It was. Back in the late Eighties.’ ‘So why not now?’ ‘Because. It’s too late. We’re too late. I’m too tired.’ ‘You’re thirty-five!’ ‘I just feel our time has passed, that’s all,’ she said. ‘How do you know, unless we give it a try?’ ‘Dexter – I have met someone else!’
