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thinking about someone, at the other end was the subject
of her reminiscences, Rowena. “Just when I thought
Brian couldn’t sink any lower,” a very angry Rowena
shouted, “he is now refusing to pay back his share of the
money my mother lent us, just after my father died.”
Clarrie remembered that Brian’s plan had been to
split their house into two – each with three bedrooms.
One would be much larger and include the garden, so
could easily be sold. The smaller one they might keep,
but this meant a makeover had to be done and they
needed a loan. Borrowing within the family was easier
than from a bank, but all that was a few years before
the marriage broke down and Rowena’s mother had not
hesitated to help them out, to the tune of £50,000.
They had paid some back but apparently, a few
years later, Brian had stopped paying interest on the
rest, claiming that it was nothing to do with him – it had
been a gift to Rowena! No wonder Rowena was
wondering what she had ever seen in him! Thank
heaven, their sons were both wonderful and a great
consolation to her. After calming down, Rowena
remarked how glad she was that she had not hurtled
back to save Brian from himself, as his grandfather had
urged.
After she had calmed down and exhausted all the
latest news about the divorce, solicitors, he said, she said
and how long everything was taking, it was clear that as
well as being frustrated, she was finding life in the UK
a bit dull, compared with her life in France.
Rowena went back to the topic of ghostly
interventions commenting that it was the first time
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