NO ONE ASKED
"Yes, I have had many offers, but I have been married for thirty years. I have slept only with my wife. She is more than I can handle. These women, this is their job. They could never afford to give away their bodies for nothing, now could they?"
His face disappears behind a cloud of cigar smoke.
"What about you?" He asks me. "Are you married?
"Widowed," I say, my voice still wavers slightly after all this time.
"I'm sorry," Clavell apologises. "And you, Mademoiselle?"
"Single," she says, and with a sideways glance at me, adds, "at the moment."
I sit forward in my chair. "This tour is all very well, Pierre, but where can we find Katrin Cajthamlova?"