News about Maeve Binchy

Conrad was telling her how awful the hotel had been. 'I had to send the towels back because, well, you don't want to know. And the sheets were nylon, polyester, whatever, so if you moved too much, you got a shock. A substantial shock, like a cattle prod, three or four times in the night. If I'd had sex with someone, we'd have been electrocuted.' Was this flirting? It seemed like flirting, so she said, 'Oop,' calling on her vocabulary of not-quite-words: oop, wah, fum, bah, owa, phla.'