he opened his eyes as if he’d been waiting for her. “Hello, stranger,” she said and he said, “I love you,” and she felt completely disorientated, as if she had been burled around in an eightsome reel and then let go and flung across the dance floor. She was trying to compose the right response to this declaration of his feelings when the Irish nurse swooped back in and said, “He won’t stop asking for his wife, you wouldn’t have any idea how to get hold of her, would you, Chief Inspector?” and the spell was broken.
