5 BACK ON THE FARMWayne’s attitude towards the Gamblers changed overnight, quite literally. It was as if a veil had been lifted and he had seen them for the first time, but he remained friendly with them. He kept his name on the list for the Racing Club’s annual trip the following year and he even kept his options open for the ‘racing trip abroad’, although he no longer had any enthusiasm for it.
He rarely missed a Saturday afternoon in the Red Dragon altogether, but he no longer made a conscious effort to be there as near to one o’clock as possible and sometimes he left hours earlier than he would have done before Kara’s visit. It wasn’t that he had anything else to do, it was just that he got fed up with the constant interrogation now that he had noticed it, although it was not in his n
