The world is defined by smells – not words or shapes or sounds.

She inhaled again. ‘You made it rain,’ she said softly, delighted. ‘Everyone needs a respite from the sun.

Please tell me it’s going to rain today, Francois.”Ah!’ he smiled. (This was obviously familiar territory.) ‘I regret to inform you that the forecast calls for nothing but sunshine.”Relentless sunshine,’ she corrected him.

If you can capture a woman’s imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.