Sarah Stagg thought she had it all: a lovely husband, twin teenage sons, a cottage in the country. Then her husband, a keen amateur thespian [1], leaves her for his leading lady, her sons go off to India, and for the first time in twenty years, Sarah is very alone and very single. She was afraid of reaction of the rest of the world. She had so called an irrational belief [2]: if she told no one, perhaps Andrew would change his mind and come home before there was any need to say anything. Her sons before going to India had treated Sarah since Andrews departure as if she were afflicted with a terminal illness [3]. Soon everybody in their little town got to know about Andrews leaving. Everybody had compassion, sympathized with her. But all their words just salted a wound [4] and dejected her spirit [5]. Once Audrey Masterton, the ruler of local theater where Andrew had worked, called Sarah. She asked her to bail her out [6] and to take share [7] in performance. Andrew and his mistress left the theater. So Audrey lost major play-actors. Sarah didnt want to join this troupe. The abandon woman decided to confer with her best friend Miriam. She brought Sarah into line [8], who had to dispel the gloom [9]. Finally Sarah found her account in visiting the Ambercross Players. Some time later her sons went to India. Ben and James were worried about leaving her on her own. They ask Ruth to bring her a dog from the rescue center. Very soon Sarah understood that a mans best friend is not necessarily a womans. A dog, Jacko, was forcing her into the life of a hermit [10] because it was amok [11]. It was cruel, dashed on [12] everybody including Sarah. She was tired of this dog but was struck by a momentous discovery [13]: for the first time since Andrew had left her she had gone to bed without being conscious of the aching absence [14] of Andrew. She reached a conclusion: not despair abandoned woman had to involve herself in the most humiliating activity [15] she could find and then take into her home a hound who hates her. Shell be too busy feeling crushed and frightened to worry about being lonely. Only Martin, theatrical Saras partner, was influential with Jacko. offered air the dog [16] in the morning together and simultaneously do the matutinal run [17].
Honestly speaking the deals in the theatre went not so well. Sarah was offered the main role. She could not see herself on the place of her heroine. The woman was ready to throw all, when her husband rang. He offered her deliverance from such torments [18], said that he understood that this task was beyond her strength and could prevail Audrey on getting off Sarahs back [19]. Sarah was in high dudgeon [20] that Andrew so much disbelieved in her. She passed up his pittance and went at play hammer and tongs [21].
Besides she began to draw again. Earlier she had even put to her trade [22], but after marriage became the housewife. Once upon a time she met her pupil and she offered her profitable order [23]. Sarah agreed and turned her hand [24] to paint the sexual fruits to opening of one rich mans restaurant. Each weekends Sarah began with fresh air and exercise with Martin.Also they conduct much time for rehearsals [25]. He was a main character. Once upon a time one more actress joined their amateur troupe. She began to flirt with Martin, invited him on coffee. Once Martin rang and said that he couldnt go with Sarah to walk at Saturday, she was certain that she lost a valuable friend. Eventually turned out [26] that Martin simply met his brother from the airport, and there was nothing him and that woman. He put up Sarah to [27] his brother Jean-Pierre. He has recently buried his wife and felt himself solitary. When Jean-Pierre got acquainted with Jacko, they immediately befriended [28].As the result he withdrewed [29] it, Sarah was dispensed from [30] her home tyrant. Afterwards Miriam has offered Sarah to go to repose [31] on Majorca.Though that was winter and there was nothing to write home about [32] Sarah agreed. There they met Sarahs groupmate Barney, whom she was swep [33] in the collage. Her heart gave a leap [34] when he accosted [35]. The whole week they conducted together. Her heart pervious to love [36]. When time to leave came Barney offered Sarah to remain. She pledged her word [37] to return, when solved her own deals at home.Having returned home Sarah flitted from happiness [38] that now she was not abandoned, but beloved, truelove woman. She was nuts about him [39] and felt herself on top of the world.
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She set her things right [40], bundled [41] and left on Majorca back in the very nick of time [42] to her lemans [43] birthday. Arrived she obnoxiously [44] wondered that he didnt meet her.She rang him, but he did not answer. When Sarah arrived homeward to him she caught him ling dead drunk [45] on the floor.Eventually she spent the night listening bawdry [46] in her address, cleaning after blue around the gills [47] of drunk hero of the day and also got in the eye with elbow although accidentally, but still painfully and vexing [48]. Her heartdied within her [49].In the morning she took herself off completely broken by grief with a heart saddened with disappointment [50]. At home Martin was the first who supported Sarah. She effectuated a conclusion [51] that if youre lying on the ground, you couldnt fall over. So she started work on the first of the fruits paintings. Very soon she understood the continuation of her conclusion it might take a while to get up again. That was no go [52] neither in paintings nor in theatrical production. But she kept busy. She concluded that the work was the answer to all her problems. Finally Sarah finished her work late at night. She was too tired to care if it was any good or not, all she knew was that she would never be able to eat strawberries again. She was afraid that her orderer wouldnt value her paintings and with thought pigs might fly [53] she went to meet him. Then her fears decreased [54]. The owner of project [55] was enrapt [56] and paid a high fee. On the party of restaurant opening everybody adored Sarah and her work. There she met Andrew. The whole evening he stepped up to her [57] and presented her as his wife.They had the emotional talk and Andrew hinted that he wanted to return. Sarah delighted with her victory [58], but she did not want already to be with him.The last scenes of this book are dedicated to theatrical production, to which Sarah was preparing so hand and foot [59]. The play ended with long-expected ardent kiss [60] between the main heroes in the play and in the book Sarah and Martin.
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