I had made sure of that. She now knew just how badly in debt she was, and I had left a lot out. None of the furniture in her house had yet been paid f...r, and the insurance money from her late husband, was already spent.?I will give the matter some thought, Mrs Walker. I will let you know when I have made my decision. But, at this point, I really don’t know what I can do for you. I know you cannot afford to run anywhere, so, please, don’t try to hide from this any longer. Where ever you go, it. " I was surprised he knew my name."Mr. Peter, sir," Beall said, taking the letter from inside his coat. "I have a message here from Justice Burgess and Constable Wainright." Robert Peter looked curious at that, raising a thin eyebrow, took the letter and popped it open with his thumb. He took out and unfolded a pair of eyeglasses and stood there under a ring of candles in his front hall and read one side and then the other and then went back and read the first side again."Preposterous," he. ‘It certainly looks that way,’ she agreed. After finishing the remainder of her drink, Joyce turned to her former student. ‘Do you want to sleep alone tonight,’ she asked. ‘I had planned on it,’ he blankly replied. ‘How would you like to live out every schoolboy’s fantasy?’ she wanted to know. ‘I haven’t been a schoolboy in years, and you stopped being my fantasy after the caning,’ he told her. ‘Be that as it may, I have no intention of going home by myself. I am taking someone to my bed. ..and welcome to Denmark. How was your flight ? All the way to my house we held each others hands, talking like it was the first time. All evening we sat in my living room talking, about everything, nothing, us, her, me, family, work, travelling...holding hands all the time, touching each other whenever we had the chance. An arm, shoulder, cheeks, stroking her beautiful hair and face...And now, I am lying here, awake in the middle of the night with the light from the moon, looking at her.