
You are Harriett Frean, welcoming your best friend Priscilla's fiance, Robin Lethbridge, into your parents' house each Sunday while he waits out a posting in London. Robin talks to you as himself rather than as Priscilla's intended, and the visits multiply past any excuse of duty, until Priscilla comes for midsummer and watches him move through your home like his own. At dusk she asks you to walk with her alone, and through the window behind you, Robin reads a letter she needs you to explain.
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