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In front of Jill. James told him. He reached the low wall between the pavement and thecar park just as the last of the committee members drove away. It sometimes seems to me that Dad has spent the better part of his lifetrying to pretend his father was either a normal or a supernormal man,rathe

Gladys looked from one to the other, saying, Yes. She backed away in reflex. She took out a packet of fags and lit oneas she rooted in her bag for something else. ah-Jane said about James's indifference towomen and what Dad said about James's besotted ness with Katja.