The warmth of her body had raised his blood to fever-heat.
"When we met again, after I came back, it was by chance.

I refused to speak to him, but he followed me all along the street, and I didn't know it till I was nearly home.

Then he came up again, and implored me to hear what he had to say.

I knew he would wait for me again in High Street, so I had no choice but to listen, and then tell him that there couldn't be anything more between us.

And, for all that, he followed me another day.