‘Demeaning for the girls to realise that even their parents believe they have no hope of hooking a worthy man without such measures. I feel sorry for them sometimes.’
So did Rafferty. And to think he hadn’t even clipped his nasal hair before climbing into his ill-fitting borrowed suit and entering the agency dating ring. ‘And you say that Isobel’s willing to do whatever’s necessary?’
‘Why wouldn’t she be? Isobel would like a return to the good life as much as the rest of her family. She’s already had a boob job – you might have noticed she has plenty to put in the shop window. I gather she’s speedily amassing funds to have her short sight corrected. She’s paying for the operations herself, too. God knows where she gets the money as her salary’s not large.’
Rafferty was beginning to have
