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‘You don’t know Tuppence.’
‘I think I am beginning to. I said that because—well, it’s a dangerous business. If they get wise to you or to her—’
He left the sentence unfinished.
Tommy said gravely: ‘I do understand that, sir.’
‘But I suppose even you couldn’t persuade your wife to keep out of danger.’
Tommy said slowly:
‘I don’t know that I really would want to do that… Tuppence and I, you see, aren’t on those terms. We go into things—together!’
In his mind was that phrase, uttered years ago, at the close of an earlier war. A joint venture…
That was what his life with Tuppence had been and would always be—a Joint Venture…
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