When Gordon got up to go, the clock was chiming twelve o’clock at night.
And when Gordon finally did go, the clock was chiming three o’clock in the morning.
They had been together for six hours....
Mrs. Perry asked Gordon to come again.
He said that he would.
And he did.
The next night.
And the next.
And the next.
And after that, he came every night—for two weeks.