“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... 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.
“Ay!” he said, tidying up the tea.
“We can’t possibly not live together now, can we?” she said appealingly.
He looked up at her with his flickering grin.
“No!” he said. “Only, you’ve got to start in twenty-five minutes.”