change is happening faster than ever and we must harness energies to keep up .' as sacking formulas go , it does pretty well for most peple ."
rose completed thee narrative ." by the end of the session . nathan would have been persuaded into thinking his was a nessessary martydom ."
rose was taking ablut her own sacking , as i had been talking about mine ." no ," i had to defend him because i wanted to get it right . " he wasn't that sentimental . he knew his worth . he would ghave fought . he would have been angry ....very angry , so angry his heart couldn't stand it ."
rose turned away .
my gaze lit on objects around the kitchen . a white jug . a wicker shopping basket by the dooor into plastic bags had been stuffed .
nathan had his vulnerabilities ." rose offered ." everyone does , rose woulsd have known which to press ."
the picture assembled of nathan listening to the delicately phrased insults of the sacking , i knew , i knew , that roger's careful cruelry would have smashed that his heart was then nathan must have felt the first intimations that his hear was faltering . did he register then the choke and stutter if his blood , the pain of the squeezed muscle , and refuse to call out ? god help us , nathan preferred to die ( and did ) rather than ask the man who had just sacked him for help .
rose added , " peter shaker is taking over ."
"well , that would have killed him if nothing else did ."
rose's lips curved in wry amusement . " yes , it probabaly did ."
i thought , i will force myself to belive that roger chose peter over nathan for a good reason .
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