Tax rise

I got a letter telling me that due to the additional costs of coronavirus, the council tax is going up by another five pounds. That makes a total 10% increase since the start of last year.

A deleted development

I wrote this today, but I don't think I shall use it; as with the business of Raoul's father, it's just turning into far too much explanation, and is leading the chapter into places that will be hard to get out of. (It's pretty weird to have Lisotte telling Hertha all this childhood stuff as a rationale for being annoyed with Raoul, anyway; I may need to tone down/tweak the preliminary passage.) I think it's sufficient to have Raoul's hypochondriac mother whisk him away from Montpellier, leaving Christine with the feeling that she is somehow to blame -- we don't need the whole complicated story of the lost letter. They were children, and Hertha's feelings are complicated enough to navigate as it is.

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So she had come home and buried her face in Lisotte's bosom, and poured out the whole. ( deleted text )