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The door opened and Hester stood before them. Clive turned his head and looked at her. He surveyed her steadily and she surveyed him. Then she said: ‘I've come to say good-bye to Clive and he and I must be alone.'
‘You shall be alone. ' Monica stood beside her son. Was she the tigress at bay, or was Hester? Each was fighting for Clive but not against each other, now; against him. ‘You shall be alone, when the time comes,' she said. ‘But I must speak to you together, first.'