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He stayed an hour or so with his friends at the public house, but that was all right: it took Eliza that long to feel at all prepared for him to come to her – their – bed. She splashed some cold water on her cheeks and neck, studied her own face in the mirror a little while – there was something in it that she couldn’t recall having seen before. She thought she could see her anticipation as much as feel it, that anxiety trying to crawl up her throat and out her mouth, the excitement building slow in her belly like the rustle of very distant thunder.