By Alexander McCall Smith
Within the fourth installment of this mesmerizing, liked sequence, Isabel Dalhousie, who's now a mom, returns to enquire an impossible to resist puzzle within the artwork world.Isabel Dalhousie—the nosiest and so much sympathetic thinker you will definitely meet—now has a son, Charlie, whose doting father Jamie has an fascinating thought to pose to Isabel: marriage. yet Isabel wonders if Jamie is just too younger to be severe? and the way might Cat reply? On most sensible of those concerns, the formidable Professor Dove has seized Isabel's place as editor of the evaluate of utilized Ethics. despite the fact that, not anything it sort of feels can shrink Isabel's innate interest. And whilst she acknowledges that work attributed to a deceased artist have at the same time seemed out there, she can not help yet imagine that they are forgeries. So Isabel starts off an research and shortly unearths herself diverted from her musings approximately parenthood and onto a course of inquiry into the soul of an artist.
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There was Charlie to be looked after; there were friendships to be cultivated; there were trips to be made to places that she had long THE CAREFUL USE OF COMPLIMENTS 43 wanted to visit. She could take Charlie—small babies were easy to travel with, she had been told, by comparison with older children. She could make that long-awaited trip to her cousin Mimi McKnight in Dallas. It had been years since she had been to Texas, and when Mimi had come to Scotland the previous year she had pressed an invitation on her, as she always did.
Jamie,” she said. “Please . ” 28 Alexander McCall Smith He shook his head. “No. I want to say something. I should have said it before. ” She held her breath. I shouldn’t have imagined that this would last, she thought; now I’ll find out what I always feared. To have had him, now to lose him; it was inevitable. “Isabel,” he said. ” He paused. ” For a moment she thought that she had misheard him. But then he repeated it. She was surprised, but not surprised. She had wondered whether he might say this, ever since she announced to him that she was pregnant.
She slit open the envelope and began to read the letter. The letterhead, once exposed, told her who the sender was—the oddly named Professor Lettuce, professor of moral philosophy at one of the smaller universities in London, and chairman of THE CAREFUL USE OF COMPLIMENTS 35 the Review’s editorial board. In general, Robert Lettuce played a small role in the affairs of the Review, being content to allow Isabel to run everything. She reported to him and the board from time to time and he, in due course, reported to the Review’s owners, a small academic publishing firm.