‘All right then,’ Shallan said. She took a deep breath, then snapped her satchel closed. ‘We walk back, and we start immediately.’ ‘You don’t want to sit for a moment and catch your breath?’ ‘My breath is quite well caught,’ Shallan said. ‘If it’s all the same to you, I’d rather be moving. Once back, we can sit sipping mulled wine and laugh about how silly it was of us to hurry all that way, since we had so much time to spare. I’d like very much to feel that foolish. You?’ ‘Yeah.’
