I’d like to pace out the area so we can get some field-walking teams set up. We could fill each other in on the day as we go.’ Too wound up by how her confession would be received when she made it, Beth didn’t bother to admonish Harrison for calling her “doll” again. Pulling on a second jumper as protection against the growing chill of the evening, she gathered up the few notes she’d made. ‘Good idea. The sooner we get that task started the better.’ In her room, Beth had imagined herself and Harrison sitting at the table in the dining room while she apologised for not telling him about Ryan’s clumsiness, pleading with him not to report her to her head of department back in Wales. Perhaps this way is better, she thought, to be away from the prying eyes and ears of any of the students who still had the energy to be up. For the eighth night on the trot, Beth marvelled at how the temperature could go from one level of unbearable and head towards another in such a short space of time.
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