They get up in the early evening. They shower and dress and go outside, they walk closer to each other, even more closely, it really is possible. It’s because we love each other, they say. It’s because we’re so passionate. We’re enthralled by the power of love.

‘I’ve never felt like this about anyone.’

‘Me neither.’

‘Kiss me!’

‘Never leave me!’

‘If you leave me, I’ll kill you!’

There is savagery and passion as in great world literature. This is the unchained passion they have read about, the dream of total union, the obsession about which so much has been written, they know, but which brings with it fear and horror too, a kind of death.