Although he was tired, he did not fall asleep.
Instead he was wondering what he should do about Isobel. He was certainly used to the curtain coming down on his love affairs unexpectedly.
How was he going to tell her that their affaire-de-coeur was at an end?
At this moment he had no wish to see her again and most of all he did not wish to even discuss, as he knew she would insist, whether or not they should be married.
It would be embarrassing for him and also he was not certain as to how she would take the idea of their affair closing down so abruptly.
Some women he left had wept copious tears.
Some had written pleading letters.
Just one or two had accepted the silence between them as something that could not be altered and made no comment of any sort.
Later in the morning, his s
