You wake suddenly at the sound of the front door shutting. Emerging from a deep sleep, momentarily confused at being in the spare room. Then you remember moving there so as not to be woken when I came back late from a girls’ night out. Soft laughter and murmurs from the hall. You listen, still half asleep; and suddenly jolt into full consciousness at the sound of a male voice. Then silence. Lying rigid in the bed, you str...