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The boathouse offered itself conveniently for that purpose. He went in and found his lover asleep. Alec lay upon piled up cushions, just visible in the last dying of the day. When he woke he did not seem excited or disturbed and fondled Maurice's arm between his hands before he spoke. ‘So you got the wire,’he said.
‘What wire?’
"The wire I sent off this morning to your house,telling you...’
   He yawned. Excuse me, I'm a bit tired, one thing and another... telling you to come here without fail. And since Maurice did not speak, indeed could not, he added, ‘And now we shan’t be parted no more, and that's finished.’