Perhaps talking about lan wasn't going to be easy. In the past, it had been easy to talk to Dexter. But now he had changed. He drank far too much and he was more careless than ever about people's feelings lan wasn't Emma's only problem of course. She was no longer enjoying her job much either. She was a good teacher, she knew that. But she got tired and she didn't have much time to write. She still wanted to be a writer, but when she did write, the results were never very good. That was as bad a problem as her relationship with lan. But the greatest problem. for Emma was that she knew, in her heart, that Dexter Mayhew was the person she really loved. So there it was. Everything was a bit hopeless, lan's career wasn't what he'd hoped for and her career wasn't what she'd hoped for. She had a feeling that Dexter's career wasn't quite what he'd hoped for either, Suki Meadows was his girlfriend these days. But she was now clearly the star presenter of Late at Night. Dex was definitely the number two person. He wasn't very popular with the audience. And nasty people often wrote cruel things about him in the newspapers now.