CHAPTER NINETony Grayling was a very normal and charming young man. His heart was very elastic and he gave it plenty of scope by proceeding to fall in love with almost every attractive young woman he ever met.
Needless to say, from the first moment that he set eyes on Vivian he ‘fell for her’, as he naїvely put it, ‘head over heels’.
Vivian was amused and she found that his obvious admiration and adoration made the passage of the days easy and entertaining.
There was no heart-tearing emotion or any subtle complexity of s*x or mind. It was just natural, human and enjoyable.
Love to Tony was simple and inevitable and so his undisguised pleasure in her company helped more than anything in healing that still throbbing wound to Vivian’s pride.
While Alec seemed more and more aloof and deta
