“How good it is!” she said. “How nice to have breakfast together.”

He ate in silence, his mind on the time that was quickly passing. That made her remember.

“Oh, how I wish I could stay here with you, and Wragby were a million miles away! It’s Wragby I’m going away from really. You know that, don’t you?”

“Ay!”

“And you promise we will live together and have a life together, you and me! You promise me, don’t you?”

“Ay! When we can.”

“Yes! And we will ! we will , won’t we?” she leaned over, making the tea spill, catching his wrist.