11/31 'I shall be so disappointed.' 'You know I don't want you to give me things,' he repeated helplessly. 'But will you have this ?' 'All right,' he said, defeated, and she triumphed. There were two bedrooms to correspond with the rooms downstairs. One of them was half furnished, and Birkin had evidently slept there. Hermione went round the room carefully, taking in every detail, as if absorbing the evidence of his presence, in all the inanimate things. |