Chapter Two Yvonne having been called away to the North of England on urgent chambers business, the lunch she had scheduled with Elaine in order that they might mull over her husband’s response to his wife’s first softening up of him had been put back until her return and it was only now, over a week on from Elaine and Brian’s initial skirmish that they had finally got the chance to meet and discuss it at length. Both apologising to each other for not having bothered with either land-line or Cell-Phone during that time but agreeing conversations of such a kind were best held face-to-face. Even if such a one-on-one, in this instance, necessitated the presence of others. The Bexhill trattoria, not a couple of miles or so distant from the Cooden Beach chambers employing the two women, was

