September was the best month of her adult life and she knew it while it was happening, which almost never happens and is worth something on its own.
The rules held at the office, mostly. She was better at it than he was. He was caught twice: once by Priya, who said "you two have got very brisk with each other" in a tone that Yasmin did not like at all, and once by nobody, in the lift on the fourth of September, when he had put his hand very briefly on the small of her back and she had said "Theo" in a voice that would have taken paint off.