9 wives behaving badly

i glanced down at the list of guests that ., so far , was composed only of work colleagues ." did i mention that met sue frost the other day in the supermarket and i tried to sort things out ?"
"actually , she told me ." nathan confessed ," but she didn't go into detail ."
i found myself inscribing two heavy underlinings on the list ." well , i will go into detail , nathan , i asked sue why , since she and jack were both on their second marriages , i am banished from thier court . waht makes me different from them  ?"
sue frost had tapped her pink suede loafer on the ground and peered over a rolley stacked with vegetables and cleaning aids . her cheeks had flamed in her pretty , but obious . face, as she replied ." i would have thought it obvious . i am not the one who left my first husband . i wasn't the party who broke up a marriage ."
"so .... " nathan shoved his hands into his trouser pockets .he put on the face he used for tricky business meetings : huges unreadable ." what did you say ?".
" i said i wanted to get the situation absolutely straigh as she saw it . as second wife  sue was okay because her husband had had the miidle life crisis and left . while i , as the second wife and object of the midlife crisis was not ? but i wanted to know what it meant if sue had driven her first husband away ....?
that succeeded in amusing nathan . he stopped looking haunted and relaxed back into the kind , intelligent man he was - the man who beat his chest and imitated gorilla noises to make the twins laugh , and the man who had recently persuaded the vistemax board to rethink their position on the future of newpapers . as an able man he could do both .