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713:£500,000 life insurance policy or risk losing his job. Matthew and Sophie finally give into temptation and consummate their budding relationship. Milton proposes to Charlotte, which somehow only results in her realising how much she loves Matthew and badly wants him back. Despite initial relisiance, Alastair struggles in the light of criticism from his fellow inmates in rehab and decides to jump ship.
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493:) is managing, quite successfully and utterly unbelievably, to convince her that he is her boyfriend. The crash must have caused selective amnesia, he tells her. Fancying the nutter, she goes along with it in spite of the warnings of Sophie. As an agony aunt, she'd better write a letter to herself pretty quickly, because this one looks like it's going to end in tears if not worse.
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430:. Charlotte, stuck with a feckless, live-in lover, does a Milly by becoming involved with a powerful, older man. But her ambition also means that she's not unlike Anna, the Scottish siren whose appetite for men was surpassed only by her ruthlessness for career success."
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