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Temperatures: was one mentioned in centigrade and one in farenheight?

I doubt the temp was in centegrade (Celsius). Because the high was 47 and the low was 42. That would equate to the high being about 120 degrees...in Fahrenheit.

Ah! We use both here in England so I get confused!

i still cant believe karen the secretary would fall in love with carsini...hes not the most attractive knife in the drawer

And he did not seem to care about any other human being - only wines.

Recall she herself said that it wasn't for "love". She felt she had been exploited for years and now was the time to get what was coming to her. Don't forget he drove a Rolls-Royce, went to New York, Paris and
other place on wine-foraging trips, spent money like a drunken sailor.....all this is better than the $200 a week she had been getting up to that time.