FIVE
“Odd though it might sound, especially in this day and age, but when it finally sunk in the following morning that Jenifer and I were going to be away from each other for an entire week, we both found ourselves a little tearful. The fact was that since we had been married we had not spent so much as a single night apart. Even when she was still living with her parents a full week had not gone by without us seeing each other at least two or three times. So, as it turned out, I found myself heading down the motorway with a heavy heart, when I should have been more excited at the prospect of finally viewing my inheritance.
“I had arranged an appointment for that afternoon with my benefactor’s solicitor, explaining that I was driving down and so hoped to be with him by early afternoon.
