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different way. Michelle was a big star, a big voluptuous woman. Discovered in the south of France wearing a bikini at the age of nineteen, now, ten years later, she had an international reputation, both as an actress and a woman. Charlie had first met her five years previously, when his career as a film actor was jogging along nicely and hers beginning to smoulder.
    For the first time in a film, instead of being just a comedy actor, he had been given the romantic interest as well. Women everywhere took to him immediately in his new role as lover. If he was good enough to make love to Michelle Lomas, then he was good enough for them.
    The letters started to pour in, and his career started to zoom.
    It was the beginning of the end as far as Lorna and he were concerned.
    The start of his affair with Michelle had changed his life a great deal. In the beginning he just couldn’t believe that a famous sex symbol, probably the most famous European sex symbol of that time, could possibly fancy him. But fancy him she had. Most of the arrangements had been manoeuvred by her. She had a husband who conveniently stayed in Paris and appeared only occasionally.
    ‘You are a wonderful man,’ she used to purr at him. ‘A wonderful lover, the best.’
    No one had ever said anything like that to him before. He had always felt inadequate, or, at the very most, average in bed. But Michelle had changed all that: she made him feel like a king.
    Of course his marriage suffered. He would return home from the studio later and later. At weekends, he would always say he had to work. In the end he hardly ever saw Lorna; they just happened to live in the same house.
    Occasionally they saw each other long enough for a brief exchange of insults.
    Lorna: ‘I know you’re screwing that big French cow.’
    Charlie: I don’t understand you, how can you say that?’
    Lorna: ‘You’re like a dog after a bitch in heat. What a fool you’re making of yourself.’
    And so it went on, fight after fight, insult after insult, until one day things really came to a head. Charlie was planning to follow Michelle back to France. She had been gone two weeks following the completion of their film, and they spoke on the phone every day.
    ‘My husband will be away in the south for ten days,’ she told him at last. ‘He will be leaving tomorrow, you can come then.’
    It was unfortunate that this should have coincided with his daughter’s birthday, and Lorna had arranged a party. He told her he had to leave immediately for discussions about a film.
    She stared at him very long and very hard. ‘If you go to her,’ she said very slowly, ‘then hold yourself responsible for the consequences.’
    When he returned things were different. There were no more fights, because Lorna was very rarely there to argue with. She seemed to manage to be just going out whenever he came in. She stayed away from home at night, not even bothering to say where she was.
    He didn’t question her. He was too involved with planning to see Michelle an often as possible.
    His career continued to progress in the best possible way. He found himself in the enviable position of being able to pick and choose what films he would do. His notices were always the best: ‘ CHARLIE BRICK SHINES AGAIN ’; ‘ BRICK SAVES THE FILM ’; ‘ THE COMIC GENIUS OF CHARLIE BRICK ’.
    Lorna and he decided to move from their country home to a penthouse in Knightsbridge. The affair with Michelle had more or less finished, due to the fact that they were both working in different countries, and meetings became impossible to arrange.
    Of course he realized he had been a fool. It had all been his fault. But the actual thing of making it with Michelle Lomas had been too much for him to miss. He felt, in a funny sort of way, that maybe he and Lorna would be closer because of it.
    She didn’t feel the same. She was cold and unfriendly in spite of his attentiveness.
    He decided to buy the penthouse in the hope that