"It's okay, Agnes. Rubin is our protector." Oh, okay." She stepped in. "As lethal as they say you are on television, Brent, I'm surprised you think yo... need a protector." As determined as my enemy is to bring about my demise, I'll take all the protection I can muster," I said."Smart. I've always said you were smart." She snorted. "That just goes to show you how dumb I am." She handed me a bottle of red wine. "Open this, pour me a large glass and bring me up to speed. Did you really decapitate. " That's true. It'd be nice to go shopping together or see a film or something." Yeah it would be cool to do that." I can't believe we spent the whole day just laughing." I don't think I've laughed that much before." Yah, me either. I can't even really remember what we were laughing about." That silly joke about the cat's meow." Oh yeah," Vicky said with a smile.I gave a little chuckle and her grin deepened."He he, oh no you'll set me off again," she cried, which only made me giggle more. Soon. Janice and Toby Ritter Met us at the pub, next door neighbours to Linda and Keith who,d gone on holiday together a few times. They had a f******n month old daughter who was being looked after by Linda,s widowed Mum. Janice and Toby lived in a big house in North London and as closing time approached invited us to join them at their place to carry on drinking. Jessica and Roger gave us a lift there as though Sarah had her driving license we couldn,t afford one then and I hadn,t bothered to renew. ‘Is she still here?’ ‘Yes, why?’ ‘Nothing.’ There was something. Kate came into the room and I picked up my briefcase and bent to kiss her good-bye. She turned at the last minute and I missed her lips, making contact instead with her cheek, strange. The meeting with Sir Thomas was something of a non-event, nothing was discussed that wasn’t covered in my report and I was soon back in my office. ‘Sarah, would you come into my office.’ As Sarah came in I told her to close the door, I didn’t want.