“Wish I had this effect on women,” he went on, smiling at Helen. But it was Macaulay they really loved. Rupert comforted her in the only way he knew, by trying to make love to her. Others stood on the bonnets of their parents’ cars, or clambered onto each others’ shoulders trying to take photographs or get a better look.
”Rupert looked round dismissively at the earnest women, their bulges concealed beneath ethnic smocks, and their bearded husbands looking self-conscious in dinner jackets. From the earsplitting cheers of the crowd, who had risen to their feet, she knew she had beaten Rupert’s time. “My name’s Campbell-Black,” he said to the receptionist. He thought of his own humiliation in the World Championship.
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