1. Eleven Days Malfoid has been carrying a ring box in her coat for eleven days and has not said a word about it to anybody.
2. The Table For Two She lays one end of the table and leaves the other end bare, because the hall seats thirty and neither of t...
3. The Speech The speech begins with the house and gets about nine words in before Malfoid stops, puts her hands flat on ...
4. The Knee She gets down on one knee on the dining room floor with the box open and her hand not quite steady, and doe...
5. The Wrong Answer She is crying before she reaches the chair and she cannot say why, and Malfoid sits down beside her and doe...
6. Taking It Back She gives the ring back at the table and Malfoid puts it in the box and does not argue, which costs her mor...
7. What She Wants First Before any of that. I have spent four years being asked for things and I would like one night of being told.
8. The Dress In the bedroom Malfoid tells her to undo the dress and stop at the waist, and Mione does it in the time it ...
9. Both Hands Now lie down and put your own hands on your breasts. Not gently. I want to see what you do when nobody is d...
10. Behind Malfoid gets behind her on the bed and puts both hands where hers were, and Mione drops her arms immediatel...
11. Pulled She asks. Malfoid pulls both of them outward at once and holds them, and Mione's mouth comes open and her h...
12. Mouth Malfoid puts her mouth on one and her fingers on the other and does not stop until Mione is swearing steadi...
13. On The Front On your front. Knees up. Face on the pillow and do not turn round.
14. The End Of The Bed She puts her down over the end of the four poster with her legs apart and her cheek flat on the sheet and k...
15. Corvina's Room Malfoid goes down at one in the morning and asks Corvina to come up, which is not something anybody in that...
16. The Vial Oil. Nothing in it. I have had it since I was her age and I have never found a use for it that was not a sc...
17. Two Fingers Malfoid uses two fingers and a great deal of oil and Corvina holds her still by the breasts and neither of ...
18. The Other Way Round Then it is Malfoid on her back with her legs up and Mione above her with one hand between them and her face...
19. The Box Corvina brings the case in from the corridor and leaves it on the bed and goes back down to her own room wi...
20. Mione's Turn She does it slowly and then not slowly, and Malfoid has her own hands on her own nipples because she cannot...
21. Three In A Bed Corvina comes back up at three with a bottle and says she is not sleeping through this, and gets onto the e...
22. Mione Last She comes last, face down on the bed with both of them over her and one nipple in somebody's fingers, and i...
23. The Chest Of Drawers At four in the morning Corvina is still awake and Mione takes the vial off the chest of drawers and asks wh...
24. Morning In the morning the ring box is still on the chest of drawers and nobody has touched it and Mione has not gi...
25. The Answer Yes. The real one. Not the reflex one.
26. The Contract Corvina has the marriage contract out on the table before breakfast, which is exactly the sort of thing she...
27. What Corvina Wants Corvina signs as witness and then does not get up from the table, which means she has something to say and ...
28. Three Names The clause takes four minutes to write and Corvina reads it back twice before she signs under it.
29. Ending — Nothing Written Corvina takes her name off the contract without a word, signs as witness only, and goes back to the school ...
30. Ending — The House Mione says it before Malfoid can, which is the first time all story that she has spoken first about anything.
31. Ending — The Long Engagement The wedding is in June and it is four people and a clerk and nobody makes a speech.