He was getting acquainted with Snakepit. She pressed the white wall again. “Aren’t you terrified?”“Terrified,” said Billy, clutching Mavis for comfort and lighting another cigarette, ‘particularly as Malise Gordon has just arrived and parked himself below us. For Janey’s liking, they had spent rather too much time with Kevin and Enid Coley, who flew out to several of the foreign shows and were always hanging about at Wembley, Crittleden and Olympia.
“I want it,” said a besotted teenager, rushing forward. Raving and delirious, his temperature rose as he babbled on and on. He couldn’t resist going into the tackroom and shining his torch on the red rosette he’d won earlier, rubbing its shiny ribbon along his face, kissing the hard cardboard centre. Helen gazed up at him, unable to get a word out.
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