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of whisky and three of wine, with nothingmore than a brief good night; it had been one of the reasonsfor her sleeplessness. 'Come and sit down, Zoe Flinders, and warm yourpretty little toes. I think he's hoping still I'll come round. He sighed.

It must be therefirst thing, she said, absolutely first thing. She was sex onlegs; Octavia had lost count of how many of the male guestshad asked her where she got her nanny from. She found it at oncetouching and irritating that she must be awoken from herprecious sleep to be kissed and told to sleep well. It was the cancer, the doctorhad said; an unpleasant side-effect.