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and tried to make it clear that Heart would be in a position to tell all when the time came.
    â€œI’ll read it through as soon as I can,” said Francesca when Ellie described what she’d done.
    Ellie pushed her notebook into her bag and got ready to leave. As she went through to change her shoes in the lobby she met Piano, who was coming back from an errand.
    â€œPop Lowther was having a good laugh earlier, wasn’t she?” Piano said, kicking off her outdoor shoes.
    â€œWhat do you mean?” asked Ellie.
    â€œWell…” Piano slipped on a pair of brilliant blue court shoes with see-through heels and smiled. “Saying she liked your dress. What a joke!” She pushed past Ellie and sauntered back to the office. Ellie stared at her back, trying without success not to feel upset. She was still smarting when Carlotta came for her coat.
    â€œI’m sorry I couldn’t talk more to you today,” Ellie apologized. “But I really had to get that article written while the interview was fresh in my mind.”
    Carlotta didn’t smile back. “You’ve got so up yourself,” she said. “It’s pathetic.”
    Ellie was stung. “I’m sorry,” she said, swallowing her anger. “I do realize how lucky I am. But I’ll be out of here very soon, and I’m sure you’ll get your chance then.”
    Carlotta looked even more angry. “Don’t patronize me,” she snapped. “And don’t bank on that article of yours getting into the magazine. It won’t.”
    Ellie couldn’t help replying. “You don’t know that!”
    Carlotta sneered. “It’s the photographs Angel really wanted. She’ll put them in and not bother with an article. Captions will do, and Piano or I will do those.”
    â€œWell it was fun meeting the Lowthers,” said Ellie, determined to be positive in the face of Carlotta’s spitefulness. “I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.”
    â€œI suppose it would have been a big thrill for you ,” said Carlotta pityingly, ignoring the fact that she’d wanted to hear all about it not long ago.
    Ellie couldn’t bring herself to reply. She flung on her coat and hurried off to catch the bus.
    â€œHey!” called Sophie, running to catch her up before she could reach the front entrance. “Come on! Tell all. Was it fabulous?” One look at Ellie’s face was all Sophie needed. She put her arm round Ellie and drew her back into the lift and down into the basement. “Did it really go badly? I’m sure it was better than you think.”
    Ellie shrugged off Sophie’s arm, thumped into a chair and folded her arms. “It was brilliant ,” she told Sophie, with a furious expression on her face. “The Lowthers were great, I remembered what to do, and I’ve finished the article. Thanks to a tip from Francesca I really think it’s got a good chance of being published. I was feeling fantastic until Piano and Carlotta got their teeth into me. And I thought Carlotta liked me. Then she didn’t for a bit, then she did, and now she doesn’t again. It’s crazy!”
    Sophie sighed. “You just have to try and ignore them,” she said. “I know they can be pretty poisonous, but it’s only jealousy. They would lov e to be able to interview people instead of running errands for Angel, but all they get to do is make up readers’ letters and make sure the horoscopes fit the available space.”
    Ellie sighed. “They can both be so… horrible .” She gave Sophie a weak smile. “They don’t really make up the readers’ letters, do they?”
    Sophie smiled back. “I invented that. I bet Heart gets loads of letters from readers, without Piano and Carlotta having to make them up. Let’s go and see if Flynn has managed to get the car out of that shoebox they call a car park.