19.Wanderlust.1986 by Steel Danielle

Author:Steel, Danielle [Steel, Danielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

She did what? In London, Lady Vi looked at James in shock. He had just told her something he knew he shouldn't, but he felt so badly for Charles that he had to share it with Violet.

She turned him down. He sent her a cable asking her to marry him, and come home via London, and she wired back saying she couldn't.

Couldn't come back through London, or couldn't marry him?

Both I suppose. I didn't ask him that precisely. Besides, he was quite drunk when he told me, poor chap. He's in terrible shape. I think he was holding out the hope to himself that when the nuns came, she'd come back to him here. And that takes care of that, I'm afraid.

But she has that grandfather of hers, you know. Perhaps she had to go home and see him first. That could be. Lady Vi had very sensibly hit the nail on the head, but James shook his head, having heard Charles's highly inebriated interpretation the night before. He had apparently been drunk for several weeks, according to mutual friends, and James had gone to his flat to see him, while Lady Vi dined alone with her mother.

I don't think Charlie sees it that way. He sees it as a rebuff. In fact, I think he sees it as rather more than that. According to him, the romance is over.

Oh, my God. Violet could easily imagine what that would do to Audrey. Is he going to America to see her?

I don't think so. In fact, I doubt it. He has that contract for the Indian book, and he ought to be leaving soon on that.

And I can just imagine who's going to be following him everywhere ' . She looked disapprovingly at James, and he shook a finger at her.

Now, Vi, Charlotte may not be your sort, but she's a bright, interesting woman, and she may do Charles some good right now. It was what Charlotte herself hoped, although Violet did not share that opinion.

Charlotte had finally taken the bull by the horns herself and gone around to Charlie's flat with boxes of breakfast pastry, a huge basket of fruit, and she had made him fresh orange juice and fried eggs and crumpets, with mugs of steaming black coffee, and she had let him pour his heart out to her. They were becoming friends over his books, and he thought of her almost as a man. She was intelligent, levelheaded, an extraordinary businesswoman, and a very sensible person to talk to. And she was absolutely nothing like Audrey.

Everything else comes first with her ' came first ' . For the first time, he forced himself to speak of her in the past tense. He hadn't seen her in nine months and it was time to stop kidding himself that he would see her again. He wouldn't, unless he went to San Francisco, and he refused to do that. Besides, he didn't have time now, Charlotte and her father felt

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