As Ellie sat in the dining room the next morning, her mind went back to the meeting with Alfie. She had tried to put it from her mind and think of ordinary household matters but it came back again and again and with it the old pain she had felt when they had been separated from one another.
She still loved him, he still loved her. It was all madness. She was a married woman now and there was an end to it. Was she to be a Guinevere - have that sad lady's tormented fate? There was no happiness in such a situation and she wanted nothing of it. She had felt so happy with Fred, and now Alfie had returned into her life to trouble her peace.
She tried to bring her mind back to balancing the housekeeping accounts but kept looking up from her desk and staring out into the garden and wishing sh
