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interested in her and that she should concentrate on her

fiancé?

Of course, he did not know, and she would never tell him,

that she had decided to break her engagement.

She had faced this decision days ago. It had been a

mistake to become engaged to Peter. It was fortunate that

she had realised it in time. It would have been a disaster if

she had married him and only then discovered their total

indifference to each other. Marc had been so right when he

said that Peter did not love her, nor she Peter. But,

believing that, why had he brought Peter here now?

A flash of intuition came to her and she bit her lip. Of

course! He was trying to protect his sister. He thought that

she was interested in Jean-Paul and he had brought Peter

here in order to put a stop to all that.

Dully, she dressed in her plain green linen dress and

went downstairs. She found the lounge empty. Sophia

bustled past and stopped to tell her that Peter was in

Marc’s office and the others all down at the beach.

The storm had again left the weather golden and sunny.

Kate stood on the verandah staring up at the bright blue

sky. It seemed cruel that the world should be in such a

holiday mood when she was so miserable and depressed. It

ought to be raining all day.

Then she laughed at herself. What a conceited, self-

obsessed thought! As if she was the only person in the

world!

Peter erupted on to the verandah beside her, his fair hair

wildly standing on end, his eyes furious.

“Kate,” he began hotly, “you must go and talk some sense