had got them. It would seem a little odd, to tell him the butcher had given them to her. Why should the butcher give her strawberries? Why strawberries? Why her? All things considered, it might be a bit awkward if he knew. Taken all round, it might be better for the strawberries simply to disappear. The best thing would be to burn the whole lot in the incinerator at home. They would make a bad smell, burning, but if she went home and did it quickly now, the smell would be gone by the time Hugh came home. She had got the knack of the incinerator now. You could be surprised, how often there was something that needed burning, what with one thing and another. Hugh might smell the smoke in his office at the bank, but he would never guess that it was coming from his own backyard. Burning was always the best idea. It tidied everything away marvellously. And ash could never create any kind of awkwardness.