Chapter Twelve
An Offer Sappho Couldn’t Refuse
The move began at an Art Review in her home town. As we now know, Sappho specialises in the Impressionists and she’d been sitting on a Review Panel at an Open Forum. Her knowledge, her mannerisms, charm, elegance and natural beauty had distinguished her from the other Panellists by a large margin and she’d attracted the interest of a certain gentleman who was a big player in the Business of International Arms Trading.
There is something about Sappho that does this and, afterwards, he’d sent his Man to introduce himself and to invite her to lunch the next day. To cut short a long story, Sappho accepted and found herself, the following lunchtime, in the lobby of an adjacent Grand Hotel.
She was expected, well-received and swept to the Pent
