There was some kind of electricity between us in the car s we drove along the lakeside road. with heavy rain hiding both the lake and mountains. It made the world inside the car even stranger and more cut off from everything else. I asked her about the house we were going to shed not said much when wed made the arrangements, just that it would be cold at night and to bring warm clothes and walking boots. It had, she said. belonged to her great-grandparents first. Her parents had lived there when they were first married, but now it was just a place to escape to at weekends