I've Got Your Number

They’re having a good time

He and Sam get

But you don’t realize, do you? The moment happens, and you make your crucial mistake, and then it’s gone and the chance to do anything about it is blown away.

“All I can say is, she’s the one I think about.” Margaret pauses, and her voice softens as she reads. “All the time. She’s the voice I want to hear. She’s the face I hope to see.”

As a clever man once said: A treasure such as this should not be left in the hands of Philistines. And Poppy is a treasure, though she doesn’t realize it.

No one wants to hear stories about bad things. That’s the truth.

A squat Japanese man in a blue suit is standing near me with some European-looking businessmen, exclaiming in what sounds like loud, furious Japanese and gesticulating at everybody with the conference pass strung round his neck on a red cord.

“All the time. She’s the voice I want to hear. She’s the face I hope to see.”

No one wants to hear stories about bad things. That’s the truth.

Never have I been less interested in house prices in my life