Thursday night he does not go back to his room, and neither do I, and nobody signs anything, and it is the first hour of the whole week that is not for anybody else.

DeaconTomorrow I am going to be seen doing something and it will be filed and it will not be private. This is private.

TamsinThis is the last private hour either of us gets.

DeaconThen stop talking and let me have it.

He is not gentle and has never been gentle and does not pretend otherwise, and for once that is exactly what the hour needs.