Chapter 20

• She hadn’t given herself time to think once the decision to come to Venice to talk to Leo had been made—had simply booked her flight and turned up at his office ten minutes ago, asking to see him.
• But being here, face to face with Leo like this, it was all too easy to realise the enormity of what she was doing. To realise just how difficult all this was going to be.
• It might have helped if she had got her thoughts into some sort of order before coming here, for one thing; at least then she might not have made such a complete muddle of things.