Gross
Selena got out of the taxi just in time to see her neighbour Zoe arriving at the front-door of the block - rather unusually, on the arm of an attractive young man. Unusually, because Zoe was very much the ice-maiden, a cold-hearted beauty, tall, spiky and spinsterish at thirty-six, whom men often found intimidating. In this way, she contrasted sharply with the more diminutive Selena, whose dramatic curves had earned her a busy love-life until early middle-age had played its cruel trick,...