Presently she could bear it no longer. She got up and called to Anthony to come in. He came obediently. "What are you thinking of," she said, "planting yourself out there and sneezing? I could see your shirt-front a mile off. It's indecent of you."
"Why indecent?"
"Because Nicky and Veronica are out there."
"I don't see them."
"Do you suppose they want you to see them?"
She turned the electric light on full, to make darkness of their twilight out there.
Nicky and Veronica talked together in the twilight, sitting on the seat under the orchard well behind the privet screen. They did not see Anthony sitting under the ash-tree, they did not hear him, they did not hear Frances calling to him to come in. They were utterly unaware of Frances and Anthony.
"Ronny," he said, "did Michael say anything to you?"
"When?"