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Wandering over to Peter’s desk, I stretch my right leg out on the window sill as I imagine the dancer Sylvie Guillaume might do to stretch her astonishingly long hamstrings, and announce, ‘I’m not pregnant.’

‘What do you mean?’ he says, hunched over his Powerbook without looking up.

‘I mean I’ve done a test and I’m not pregnant.’

‘That’s good,’ he says, tapping the space bar and still not looking up. ‘Did you think you might be?’

‘Well, it’s very odd because I’m late and I’m never usually late. But the test is negative, so I can’t be pregnant.’

There is a short pause. ‘Good oh,’ he says cheerfully.