The Honeymoon Prize

‘Oh, yes…right,’ she said, nodding as if she had a clue what he was talking about.

Max got up to make himself some more toast.

‘We’ve established that it won’t be awkward living together, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be incredibly irritating,’ he said briskly.

‘In what way?’ asked Freya, glad to be off the subject of that one encounter.

‘For a start, we’re clearly incompatible on the tidiness front.’ He slammed the toaster down. ‘You may be happy living in a tip, but I prefer a little more order in my surroundings.’

Order—another typically Max word, like ‘sensible’ or ‘logical’! Freya was tempted to say that the obsessive desire to impose order was merely a manifestation of a subconscious sense of inadequacy, but on reflection, and bearing in mind that she didn’t have anywhere else to go, she kept it to herself. He was such an engineer sometimes, though!

‘There was a party here last night,’ she pointed out instead. ‘There’s no such thing as a tidy party.’

‘In the bedrooms too? It looks as if the entire contents of Top Shop are strewn all over the floor! I dare say you haven’t heard of it, but I understand that there’s a very useful little gadget called a coat hanger that you can get hold of nowadays,’ he added nastily.

‘I was running late,’ said Freya with dignity. ‘I couldn’t decide what to wear.’

‘So you threw everything on the floor?’

‘You’ve never seen a woman get ready for a party, have you?’

‘Look, Freya, how you set about the incredibly difficult task of deciding what to put on every morning is nothing to me. Do what you like in your own room. I’m merely suggesting that we establish some ground rules for those areas like the kitchen and the living room that we’re going to have to share.’

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