Anna was almost certainly going to die, but Dickon shouldbe spared from that knowledge for as long as possible in hisview; he wasn't yet five years old. Maybe thiswasn't going to work after all. Her coolself-control seemed to have deserted her. Octavia, reading her body language, sensing danger (forshe had seen four nannies off already in her eight years ofmotherhood), said, 'No, of course you must have thatweekend.
''Oh, did I? I don't remember. Tom had disappeared; so had herfather. Right as rain. 'That was clever of her,' she said now to Tom, 'veryclever.
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