Och, away now, Ruari. You’ll be telling us you’re not knowing who that woman is next! Man, man, that’s an awful affliction.” A grey-bristled, weather-beaten face beamed back at him.“And isn’t it you that’s making the drives in her car at the dead of night, too?” A female voice joined in from behind the sweets jars: “Oh my, Ruari … ’tis a terrible thing the guilt of the carnal pleasures!”“I haven’t had any carnal pleasures … I simply got a lift home. You’re terrible, right enough,” he defended himself.

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