![]() Violet was a skilled perspective artist while her husband was an equally skilled architectural model maker. ![]() They then spent a few pleasant years enjoying a happy and far from platonic relationship until what had been Jane’s family home fell to her on the departure of her older sister Violet, together with her husband, to take up a joint post in Dublin. So, once he’d made the decision that he wanted something more from their neighbourly relationship, he made his feelings clear and managed to win Jane round to the same way of thinking. ![]() Their relationship had progressed slowly, mainly as a result of Roland’s sudden realization that he found Jane extremely attractive and had begun looking forward to bumping into her during the day – and he had even engineered the odd meeting if he was honest with himself. The pair had started out as friendly neighbours who bade each other good morning or evening and occasionally shared a glass of wine together at convivial moments. ![]() ![]() Jane Highsmith and Roland Fox had long been neighbours in Birchgrove, a hamlet which consisted of a cluster of small houses designed for first-time buyers, near the southern fringe of Newton Lauder, a little town south of Edinburgh and close to the boundary between moorland and the fertile plain of the Scottish Borders. ![]()
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