Charlie sighed and said, “That’s it. All over.”
“Until the next time.”
“There’ll never be another one like this.”
“I couldn’t stand it if there were.”
He reached out for her hand and Natalia let him take it. “My internal problems are over, your internal problems are over. Like Sasha’s storybook says, we can live together happily ever after.”
“There were some changes in the Duma while you were in England,” announced Natalia.
He looked at her, unspeaking.
“Viktor Romanovich Viskov got elected deputy of the Communist faction. I think I should still keep the Leninskaya apartment.”