”That scallywag,” I whispered under my breath, while seething with anger this fuelled an irrational hunger for retribution against the winter wind outside.
My first thought was to go and shut the window unexpectedly to trap him inside and have a word with him. I was dying to tell him to his face how I felt and teach him a lesson for fooling around at the expense of my good health!
Bracing myself, I gathered my strength and I got out of bed briskly to go off and close the window. The wind was where I had left him in the evening, looking in from the outside with a frightened look. He seemed to have cast his gaze beyond me. I had never before seen him so shocked and bewildered. But the cold wouldn’t allow for lengthy investigations, so I said abruptly:
”You behaved appallingly! Not to ment
