Occasionally she came with me to Heinen's.
Occasionally she'd come tottering up to my house tap-tapping on the window with a shooting stick.
If she runs into a former interviewee, her usual policy is to dodge them – though occasionally she'll come across a roomful of them at a party, "And it's a sort of 'Whoa, which way should I go?' thing," she giggles.
And there, too, she occasionally came to work as someone else — a nurse in a white uniform, a fifties secretary-type — and everyone found that weird and funny, but she stopped doing it because, she said, she was afraid of losing her street identity, "which you really need in New York".
Even though we're inspired by her bravery and rooting for her to hang on to the love she deserves, Liv occasionally comes across as peevish and ungenerous in comparison to her soul sister, Sophie, whose fate is the cliffhanger that will propel readers to the end of this book.
Occasionally, Ranju comes to me in a bad mood.
Occasionally someone comes along who quietly changes everything.
Occasionally, Hirai comes across as a wide-eyed Hollywood outsider.
She would occasionally come by my Bloomsbury premises after a bibulous Italian lunch with friends from the British Library, full of good cheer.
