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It was quite a sweet story, actually. ''Nothing could please me more,' she said, 'than a littlecivilisation in our relationship. Please, don't cry. That is my advice to you.

''Look,' she said, and there was an underlying panic in hervoice, 'all I meant was we'd have made one anotherunhappy for longer. Rooms for the children alreadyexisted, of course, had done ever since the twins had beenborn. And it canhelp. He'd been more or less commuting forweeks and weeks, working on some new account or other.