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policeman?”
    â€œUh-huh. He can at least have a look at the letter, reassure you there’s nothing to worry about. It’s his job. He deals with shit like this all the time. He’s an expert.”
    â€œOkay,” said Sarah.
    Mark came back and asked them about dessert. Sarah only wanted a decaf cappuccino, but Stuart went for the pink gingered pear compote with cassis, which was duly delivered.
    â€œNow,” he said when Mark had vanished again. “Are you sure it’s a good idea to do this Nora in this . . . what is it?”
    â€œA Doll’s House. Ibsen.”
    â€œRight. Are you sure it’s a good idea to do this thing on Broadway?”
    â€œI should be so lucky. Jane Fonda played her in a movie.”
    â€œThat’s right,” Stuart said. “That’s right, she did. Now I recall.” He paused, ate a spoonful of compote, then fixed her with a serious gaze and said, “But, Sarah, sweetheart, think about it. Do you really want to end up making exercise videos and marrying a millionaire tycoon?”
    â€œWell, I suppose there are worse things in life,” she said, laughing. But her laughter had a brittle, nervous edge.

 
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    This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblence to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
    THE GOOD PARTNER . Copyright © 2015 by Peter Robinson. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransfereable, right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permisison of HarperCollins e-books.
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    This story originally appeared in the collection Not Safe After Dark , published by Crippen & Landru in 1998.

    EPub Edition Feburary 2016 ISBN 9780062413796

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