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'You can't come in,'she had said, 'we can't talk here. 'Octavia had stopped talking, was sitting silent, staring outof the window at the beginnings of the dusk. I want to talk to you. ''Yes, but she does get very het up about things like that atthe moment.

The whole idea is absurd. She's rathersharp. Zoe planned totake a gap year when she left school and spend it workingwith some youth volunteer scheme in Zimbabwe. 'So I can see this is a littletroubling for you.