It was mid September and the hotel was fairly busy, although not completely full, with visitors who had come to see the Illuminations. Kathy would be busy during part of the day as she helped out doing a spot of waitressing, but she agreed that she would see Tim in the afternoon after the midday meal was finished, and again in the evening. She decided to put her cards on the table, so to speak, right at the start, so she asked Tim to come and call for her. Her dad would want to know where she was going and who she was with anyway, so it would be best to be up front about it. She had already confided in her aunt that she had met Timothy Fielding the previous night at the Winter Gardens, and that she was seeing him again that afternoon. ‘How exciting!’ said her aunt, looking quite delighted. ‘You always liked him, didn’t you?’ she added roguishly. ‘I remember when you were in Sally’s class you were forever talking about him.’ ‘Was I?’ said Kathy, laughing.
