Page 40 - Bridget Jones's Diary - by Helen FIELDING

- precipitated, as I told him, first by bloody Mark Darcy then by bloody Daniel at

which point he said, I must say not particularly helpfully, 'Mark Darcy? But isn't
he that famous lawyer - the human-rights guy?'

Hmmm. Well, anyway. What about my human right not to have to wander
round with fearsome unattractiveness hang-up?

11 p.m. It is far too late for Daniel to ring. V. sad and traumatized.

Monday 9 January

9st 2, alcohol units 4, cigarettes 29, calories 770 (v.g. but at what price?).

Nightmare day in office. Watched the door for Daniel all morning: nothing. By
11.45 a.m. I was seriously alarmed. Should I raise an alert?

Then Perpetua suddenly bellowed into the phone: 'Daniel? He's gone to a
meeting in Croydon, He'll be in tomorrow.' She banged the phone down and
said, 'God, all these bloody girls ringing him up.'

Panic stricken, I reached for the Silk Cut. Which girls? What? Somehow I
made it through the day, got home, and in a moment of insanity left a message
on Daniel's answerphone, saying (oh no, I can't believe I did this), 'Hi, it's Jones
here. I was just wondering how you are and if you wanted to meet for the skirt-