Georgina Morley
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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But that's what she does in everything.
There are these little bombshell lines and you think, oh.
And then you read the next vignette or the next story or the next bit.
And there's all this stuff going on in the gaps, as you said, Andy.
And even at the end, you still don't quite know what's happened or what they are or what it is.
Yes, that's exactly it.
But it's never nasty.
Even when you think it's about to be.
And that section that you've just read is the section that contains the title of the book, the paragraph above, isn't it?
This is RPD has taken his young staff, most of whom are women, young women, including the young woman, Annie, who has arrived from outside London.
And he's taken them to dinner at Prunier's, which is very posh indeed.
It was posh then, it would be posh now if it was still going.
Maybe it is still going.
And they're all sitting at the table.
And he says, Sam Brooks is his name,
I should like to give you a present.