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  2. THE ACTRESSES
  3. About The Actresses
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‘Frankly my dear,’ she said answering him at last, smiling at him: sophisticated, cool, catching his eye, ‘Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.’

And then she spoilt the effect by reaching up shyly, as she had the day of the garden party, and touching the short springy hair. He caught her hand and brought it down to his mouth and kissed it.

‘I love you Pauly,’ he said. ‘I’ve loved you all my life.’

Just at that moment, just as he kissed her hand, before she could say anything at all, a group of Hawaiians started another Christmas song somewhere further along the beach.

And the song they were singing in another language, there in the hot sunshine on Christmas Day on the other side of the world, was her father’s favourite song, ‘I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas’, that he had sung so long ago to the Russian chimpanzee, in the circus.

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Pauline and Joseph walked slowly along the beach in the sunshine towards the hotel. The drifting Christmas singing faded into the sound of the sea, the sound of the waves breaking on the shore; coloured birds flashed sometimes between the trees.

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About Barbara Ewing

BARBARA EWING is a UK-based actress, playwright and novelist. She trained as an actress at RADA and has starred in film and TV, including Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) alongside Christopher Lee. She is the author of six historical novels one of which, A Dangerous Vine, was longlisted for the Orange Prize.

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Copyright

First published in Great Britain in 1997 by Little, Brown and Company

Published in 1998 by Warner Books

This edition published in 2003 by Time Warner Paperbacks

This eBook edition first published in the UK in 2018 by Head of Zeus Ltd

Copyright © Barbara Ewing 1997

‘Mary C. Brown and the Hollywood Sign’

Words and music by Dory Previn

MCAMusic Publishing, a division of Universal Studios Inc.

The moral right of Barbara Ewing to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.