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Even Helen, now over the disappointment of Rupert’s twenty faults, was jumping up and down and waving her yellow hat in the air. The only blot on the horizon was the tension in Rupert’s marriage. He wants to marry me. For days he floated on a cloud of bliss.

We’ll all jump. “You remember that red T-shirt you wore when Revenge won at Olympia?” said Jake. Molly was already planning her wardrobe for the next Games in Colombia the following August. Probably the whole household knew he’d gone out after a screaming match with Helen.