Elizabeth…
…. I need to talk to Elizabeth...
“Elizabeth, there have been developments. I"m sending Ross to pick you up….”
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The whole episode feels surreal. Ever since the dinner with the five of us together, the whirlwind speed of events has carried away the time to think about all this….
“I just needed to talk to someone about it all.”
She knows me, my Elizabeth. Calm, demure, she sits, letting me unload, hearing me out. She says nothing, simply listens, occasionally drawing a breath or biting a lip as I talk.
When I grind to a halt, she waits to see if I have finished, then, “What are you going to do? Sack James?”
“No, I can understand his reasons. I"m sure he was genuinely trying to help the girl and I’m equally sure that he had no idea about all this.”
“What then? What’s
