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‘I think fashion and shopping are best left to the ladies. Sabrina, how would you like to take on the role of choosing the colours and lettering for our “demolish the dam” T-shirts?’ Bernard Trench said from the head of the table.
Stirling glanced at Sabrina Frost and saw the scowl colour her face in the candlelight. Trench had a justifiable reputation for being a lecherous, sexist, chauvinistic bore. He’d told Stirling after the last meeting that he thought Sabrina, a staunch environmentalist and president of the Southern African branch of the international group GreenAction, was a lesbian. Stirling suspected this was based on her rejecting Trench’s ham-fisted advances and her desire to be referred to as Ms rather than Miss in committee meeting minutes. As bedfellows they didn’t come
