The Pemberton dinner was a rehearsal. The charity gala, six weeks later, was the performance. It was held in a museum, among marble emperors and glass cases of antique coins, and four hundred people had paid an obscene amount of money to stand among the artefacts and be seen standing among them. Iris wore a dress the colour of deep
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