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Show •292 Carlo and I had stopped to talk. All five of us were going; it was a family outing planned by Alice as, I suspected, a sort of semi-formal farewell for myself and Jacob. We were being dismissed so that she could take care of Carlo by herself. However I had another plan, which I would propose to Jacob in the morning. If he agreed, and Carlo went along, Alice would be circumvented. Partially cheered up, and the sexual-philosophical machine running down at last, glutted with Reasonable fantasies, I started to fall sleep. But yust before I drifted off I felt Morgan raise herself on one elbow. "Buck?" "Yes?" "I don't want you to think this changes anything. I'm still leaving as soon as we get to L.A. We had some good times but it's not serious." |