“Am I temptation!” she said, stroking his face. “I’m so glad I’m temptation to you! Don’t let’s think about it! You frighten me when you start thinking: you roll me out flat. Don’t let’s think about it. We can think so much when we are apart. That’s the whole point! I’ve been thinking, I must come to you for another night before I go. I must come once more to the cottage. Shall I come on Thursday night?”

“Isn’t that when your sister will be there?”

“Yes! But she said we would start at teatime. So we could start at teatime. But she could sleep somewhere else and I could sleep with you.”

“But then she’d have to know.”

“Oh, I shall tell her. I’ve more or less told her already. I must talk it all over with Hilda. She’s a great help, so sensible.”

He was thinking of her plan.