He was driving Kitty crazy and she’d taken to shouting ‘I’m not in!’ at the first ring. Of course no-one in the house took any notice. Petroc just looked depressed and growled, ‘It won’t be for me,’ which she took to mean it wouldn’t be Amanda and if it was anyone else he didn’t care anyway. Lily and Glyn always seemed to be on their way out of a room, not so much as turning back with curiosity, when the phone rang. ‘When I think, all those years ago he simply disappeared to do his VSO and never even sent me a postcard,’ she complained to Glyn after the first four calls. ‘He must have been looking through Rose’s address book. I can’t imagine him coming straight out with it and saying, “Hey Rose, what’s Kitty’s number these days, I think I’ll call her a hundred times and talk about the affair I think you’re having.”’ ‘It’s for you. Your admirer again,’ Glyn smirked, handing the phone over to Kitty soon after breakfast. Tee-heeing at her and making mocking kissy noises, he drew a fat heart on the Post-it pad on the dresser, scrawled Ben’s name on it and added an arrow through the middle, then stuck it on the cupboard door.
