'Silly boy!' she chided softly.
We will draw a veil over what happened next. The ward was a very public place; but the other patients discreetly turned their heads away and pretended not to see.
Mr and Mrs Joshua Billings were away for fully half-an-hour. To Emmeline and Pincher it seemed more like five minutes.
III.
The wedding, a month later, was a very quiet one.
THE END.
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Footnotes
[1] 'The Straits' = the Mediterranean.