CHAPTER NINE
‘Hello Tina, it’s Audrey.’
Tina was pleased but worried when she heard Audrey’s voice on the estate agency’s landline. ‘Are you all right? You should have called me on my mobile.’
‘My request is so mundane I didn’t want to interrupt you negotiating a big sale.’
Tina laughed. ‘Are you really inviting the whole town to your tea party?’
‘Please tell me you’ll come.’
Tina hesitated.
‘I’m hoping this tea party will fill my new home with happiness and love. By the way, what can you tell me about a Mr Dryomov?’
Tina didn’t know how to respond.
‘Tina? Are you there?’
‘I’ve not met him but, according to my boss, Trevor, he put in a ridiculously low offer. Fortunately, the estate’s executors turned him down and then you came along offering a fair price, which is why we almost
