The prospect of staying alone with Phrossou gave him a certain sense of disquiet - and to whom could he admit that without becoming a laughing stock? - yet he had no choice but to agree. What preoccupied him now was how to see Anne, as much as possible, during the four days she had left before going away.
That afternoon the English girl appeared, unexpectedly, in Gladstone Street, with a recipe for the cake they had eaten on their outing - which Polyxeni had politely requested from her mother. Dimitri asked her to stay but she couldn’t, because Mrs Winslow needed her help to decorate the church.
His disappointment was followed by anger when she told him that they wouldn’t be able to see each other the next day either, because she was going with her mother to buy presents for her relative
