I first met her when I knocked into her in a corridor and sent masses of her work sprawling over the floor, so as she always used to laugh afterwards, things could only get better from there. I turned back to face her, and she obviously saw in an instant how embarrassed I felt – but she didn’t know the half of it. XXX I must have looked just as embarrassed, I certainly felt it. I must have looked just as embarrassed, I certainly felt it. “Oh, Laura, sorry! So I just started walking aimlessly around the town streets, my brain churning with the terrible consequences of my actions. She couldn’t help but be the centre of attention at parties, not that she minded, and I always envied her ability to converse and flirt with the men around her while fending off their clumsy advances and making quite clear that at the end of the day,
