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Pobble.”
“He did not play the guitar but I recognized his genius.”
“Oh, Pobble, what are you up to?”
“Just what Sonia asked.” Basil leaned his chin on the knob of his cane. “You know, Babs, that all I want is your Happiness.”
“This doesn’t sound at all like you. You’ve got some sly scheme.”
“Far from it. You must never tell him or your mother what I am about to say. Charles’s parents are dead so they are not affected. I knew his mother very well; perhaps he doesn’t know how well. People often wondered why she married Albright. It was a blitz, you know, while he was on leave and there were air raids every night. It was when I was first out of hospital, before I married your mother.”
“Darling Pobble, it’s very cold here and I don’t quite see what all this past history has to do with me and Charles.”
“It began,” said Basil inexorably, “when—what was her name?—Betty was younger than you are now. I threw her into the lake at King’s Thursday.”
“What began?”
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