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In the ensuing days, Alex met that look very often -- a look of pleased, speculative approval, pregnant with unspoken meanings.
Noel sought her company incessantly, and every opportunity was given them of spending time in one another's society. For five glowing, heather-surrounded days and five breathless, moonlit evenings, they became the centre of their tiny world.