Wild Desire
She found herself wishing that she had gone to get her hair done before having lunch as she casually laid her left hand over a paint stain on her right sleeve.
His name was Steve. He was in property, he told her, in St Ives overseeing the conversion of a few big places into little holiday flats before the next season began. Home for him was normally London so they found common ground there talking about the pollution, the traffic, the stress. And blood pressure. Clare’s, at that particular moment, seemed much higher than usual.