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It was Tom, Tom sounding slightly distant, and she heardher voice, not tearful at all, saying, 'Yes?''Just to let you know,' he said, 'that I've just had a callfrom Michael Carlton. She picked up the phone, took a deep breath, dialled thenumber. gs; if you sent to central casting for ACity Executive, they'd come back with someone wholooked exactly like Nico Cadogan. ''You should have rung me.

I can'tnot. Charles eased himself into bed beside his grandsonand fell asleep with surprising speed. ''But I thought he'd appointed someone else. At Romilly at least.