However, she had acted foolishly and squandered her savings and more besides. Craig had stepped into the breech to pay for university, but it had cost him all his savings and his apartment, partly because the exchange rate had swung against him by thirty-three percent. She remembered what a cow she had been at the time, when she was considering ditching him and going back to work, which would have forced him to go back to the UK broke.
She found it hard to believe that she could have contemplated being so callous now. Nevertheless, he had stuck by her and she by him, although she had never given up two of her oldest dreams: to own a car and to work or live abroad.
She had the car now, and could have had one years earlier, but it had been as Craig had said: she hadn’t needed one. The car
