he was just setting down his dinner jacket down at the foot of his bed when he heard the door creak and shut . he turned , spotted thomas , and offered him a small smile . ❝ i thought for certain you’d been caught up downstairs and that they wouldn’t let you off until well after i’d gone to bed . ❞ matthew had , after all , had lived in the middle class for two decades before he had received robert’s letter . he knew how to dress and undress , if it came to that . ❝ and before you apologise , don’t . ❞ thomas’s absence would hardly put him off or inconvenience him . he strode to the front of the mirror , glancing at thomas through it . ❝ you can repay me by telling me how your day was . i’ll forgive without retribution . ❞
@barroe / sc.
