The Man Who Turned Into Himself by David Ambrose

Author:David Ambrose [Ambrose, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi

'I haven't forgotten,' he informed me brusquely.

'Hadn't you better decide how you're going to behave towards him?'

'I'll behave just as I always do.'

'Okay. I'm sure you'll handle it.' I would have liked to have felt more sure, but thought it better to boost his confidence rather than undermine it by harping on the point. In the event, I must say that he was as good as his word. He and Harold, fortunately, only had time to exchange the briefest of greetings before he was whisked off by Mabel Dodge-Bryan to meet the guest of honour, a short, pinch-faced Hungarian conductor whose features he had seen on the covers of record albums, compact discs and scandal sheets for as long as he could remember.

At dinner Richard was seated on the top table between a UN Ambassador's widow, reputedly worth three billion, and the conductor's charming twenty-one-year-old sixth wife. Anne was prestigiously seated a few places along on the conductor's left. Harold was on a more modest secondary table. Throughout the evening Richard kept a discreet watch on both of them, looking for knowing glances, little smiles, or any of the tell-tale signs of secret intimacy. But there was nothing.

'You've got to hand it to them,' he said to me, 'they're very good.'

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