Candy stood at the window for a moment, listening. Gladys was asleep in the next room, as her personal maid, and could hear the sound of the window opening. But all was quiet.
Smiling to herself, the girl climbed onto the windowsill and grasped a large tree limb, testing its strength while looking for the one she would move her feet to.
So, op-la! Ms. White found herself in the tree. Now all she had to do was climb down.
This was no problem at all, because the tree was much smaller than Father Tree.
The girl had that magical, almost childish feeling of freedom, joy, some lightness of mind. With all these experiences, she felt that she was losing herself, her individuality, but now that her muscles ached from the unaccustomed tension, she felt strong and alive.
"We'll have to see how the preparations for the remodeling of the Happy Clinic are going," Candy thought. Yes, she would be working, and making people...healthy...and happy.
Candy quietly jumped to the ground and looked around. There were servants standing in front of the gate to the house, but they were looking at the road ahead of them and didn't notice her.
The girl, sneaking around, walked past the house to come to where Neil's room was - at the end of the hallway.
Trees grew near the house, and the girl hoped there would be a similarly comfortable tree near Neil's window.
And there was his room. Candy looked up. Even though it was very late, Daniel's light was on.
"He can't sleep either..." Candy thought.
A tree near that wall was growing very well, and Miss White pulled herself up on her hands.
She wanted to laugh out loud, but there was silence, and she had to hold back. Finally, there was one last sturdy bough to even sit on. Candy carefully settled herself in her unusual observation post and leaned her back against the trunk of the tree and peered out the window.
Neil was sitting at the table by the window with his hands folded. Absorbed in his thoughts, he could not see what was happening outside the window, and Miss White could see his profile and the lashes on his drooping eyelids.
The girl reached out and tapped quietly on the window. Daniel flinched as if awake and turned toward the window.
Neil's dark eyes widened first in amazement and then in horror.
"С...Candy!" He whispered in a suppressed whisper, not even because his servant Henry - Gladys' husband - was sleeping in the next room, but because his throat was seized by a cramp. Legan rushed over to the window and opened it machineily, not realizing how he could safely move Candy into the room. She was only an arm's length away from him, but she was in a tree! "You're crazy!" He whispered, holding out his arms to her. "You're-" Neil looked down at the ground in horror. "You're going to fall! You'll break your neck!"
"Shh!" The girl put her finger to her lips. "I won't fall! Open the window wider."
Neil obeyed and held out his arms once more. Candy took his hand and with a jerk stepped from the branch to the windowsill, then let go of the other branch and jumped gently to the carpet.
Legan quickly closed the window and scattered into barely audible curses.
"Candy, don't EVER do that! You could have gotten yourself killed! You could have... I almost lost my mind! And if you had snapped..."
The girl went to her lover and hugged him.
"Come on... I climbed the Father Tree, which is almost twice as tall, when I was very young. This tree is just perfect for climbing."
She laughed her melodious laugh softly, and Neil squeezed her in his arms. " You, fool..." he whispered, feeling the fear release him. "I was so scared for you..."
They had completely forgotten that they had been angry with each other not so long ago; now, being so close, feeling the breath of the one they loved, each of them had a stronger heartbeat. Candy lifted her head and Neil kissed her, all inhibitions under the cover of night became pale and ridiculous, they kissed so greedily they couldn't breathe and then, locking the door from the inside, they loved each other.
The fact that they had to keep silence because of Henry, who slept in the next room, only inflamed their desire, and, muffling their moans of pleasure, they gave themselves to each other with all their passion. Then, much later, they lay embraced and whispered something to each other. They didn't want to sleep at all. The first rays of sunlight were creeping into the room, and Candy looked up.
"Let's take a little walk, shall we?" She suggested.
Daniel, meanwhile, was thinking about how to get his bride into her bedroom without getting past the cordon of Henry and his wife.
"A walk?" He wondered.
"Well, yeah. It's still quite early and everyone is asleep. We'll climb down the tree, climb over the fence to the left of the house, there are no servants there, and take a little walk through the morning streets! It'll be just the two of us, and we can talk about whatever we want. I'll have to spend the whole day in the company of Madame Elroy, she's... She's a nice woman, of course, but I feel restrained in her presence. We won't be long, Neil."
Daniel didn't even realize what his fiancée was talking about.
"Down the tree? Climb...over...the...fence?"
"What's wrong? It's not that hard, and everyone's still asleep. And then when we get back, we can slip quietly back the same way. You can go out into the garden - say you've passed a servant unheard, and I'll go back up the tree to my room!"
"But I...I can't climb a tree, Candy! And it's dangerous to walk the streets!"
But for some reason, Neil's common sense and basic caution were overruled this time, Candy spoke so captivatingly that he wanted to walk the morning streets with her. The only thing that frightened him was going down a tree, and the fence seemed an inconsequential obstacle.
"After all, as a little kid, I used to climb over the fence a lot to cause trouble for Anthony," he smiled.
Neil stood up, reaching for his clothes and suddenly smiled.
"This is going to be our little adventure," he whispered.
The man really did feel like he was a child.
"It's easy to get down that tree, I tested it by climbing it," Candy winked. "Especially since you'll be with me!" She winked.
"Just let's not go too far out of the neighborhood," Neil worried one last time. "It could be dangerous!"
"Of course not," his beloved smiled and climbed up on the windowsill. 'We'll only be an hour, and we'll be right here." Daniel unbuttoned his already buttoned jacket, for comfort, and gave her his hand.
A person in love often commits stupid and ridiculous acts, the motives for which he then can not explain. And also a person in love considers himself invulnerable and does not feel any danger at all...