Harry offered to have breakfast sent up, with champagne. But as she checked her phone, she told him, “You’ll have your coffee soon enough. There’s just time to meet Charles and Yvonne before school.”
So, he surmised with pleasure and relief, she must be intending to draw him closer, in more ways than just intimacy.
They dressed quickly, and Harry was impressed to find Joseph waiting for them in the rented van at the curb. Aldo must’ve offered the fellow’s services to her already. So, without asking, Harry figured Aldo already knew she was in town, further evidence that the Italian had alerted her to Harry’s dalliance with Veronica.
He didn’t ask Esther about Aldo, not just yet. He felt closer to her, even though his head was still spinning from the suddenness of her rush of emotion, but
