Full of Money (31 page)

‘Anyway, whether or not you sweetly nemesized Ince, dear Dean, I hope you appreciate that I'm the one who sent you unmistakably into a probably best-seller book, although he called you Grenville Lampoda. Vagrain changed the object of your literary fandom from Anthony Powell to Dylan Thomas, I don't know why. More disguise? The last-but-one book in the Powell
Dance to the Music of Time
series is called
Temporary Kings
, isn't it? That's how Whitsun and I will for ever remember you and Adrian.

‘The estates are quietish without you, still a bit stunned by all that happened. There were such big losses on both sides, weren't there, Dean? No conquerors. No colonizers. The Olympics people are chuffed.'