She smiled at him, warmly. He put down his glass and stood up. He put his arms around her.
“But there’s one thing,” he observed comfortably, “that you can’t beat this world for! Ten million people all around you may be daunting, but there’s one thing we’ve got here that we can never be sure of in Barkut! Here, my dear, we’ve got privacy!”
He reached up and turned off the light.