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That, together with what had then been a newand rather attractive concept -- the power marriage -- hadraised their profiles considerably. The attitudeof the tabloid press was softening; Charles had appearedwith the boys at the gates of Balmoral, and they ''Well, you certainly did that. And he'sreally up against it, poor old Tom.

'Let's go upstairs,' was all she said. We're partners, or so I understood. But it doesn't matter, does it? I was going anyway. Tom phoned Octavia at one thirty-one.