She felt sick, utterly alone;she began to hallucinate, to see Minty, to see Louise,walking towards her. ''You mean the opposite of divide and rule?' said Octavia,and the editor said yes, she supposed she did and that wouldbe a good quote too. She didn'treally want it used in this way. She had been there for a few hours when Tom slippedinto the bed beside her.
''Well,' she said lightly, 'quite a lot to lose if the horsedoesn't win. Just -- well, almost one. It was amazing how she'd remembered it all so vividly:the other way to reach it, so she didn't have to drivethrough the farm, down the farm track even, so the dogsdidn't bark. Today Tom was lunching with Bob Macintosh, and theproblems under discussion were at least fifty per centpersonal.
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