16
After Effects
Meredith
THE NEXT FEW WEEKS through the end of June and into July were difficult and strained. Mike and I kept up our act in public. We had the work on the Maynard Centre to fill our leisure hours and I was studying for my finals in mid-July. For the first two weeks of July I went away to a residential revision course in Oxford. That took the pressure off our relationship and gave me a chance to spend the time with Clara. Not that I saw much of Clara with classes all day and revision all night. The exams themselves were to be held in Southampton and I returned home with dread at the thought of five intense exams in three days and the threat of PMS over the exam period.
The PMS never came and my period was late. I put it down to the stress of exams and all that had been
