Chapter 23We have a couple of hours before lunch, so we wander about the shops staring at all the things we can now afford to buy. From time to time Patricia reads a price tag or fingers a fabric but in the main, she's lost in her own thoughts. We hardly speak because we can't stop thinking about the money. Designer's names which are familiar from television or newspaper adverts suddenly spring out at me from the shelves and rails – Chanel, Gucci, Moschino – they are all here, enticing me to buy them. Patricia loves handbags and she spends quite a long time fingering an offering by Armani.
“Would you like me to buy that for you?” I ask. “We can afford it now”.
“Thank you, Danielle,” she replies, flashing me one of her marvellous smiles. “But I'll refuse your kind offer because, much as I
