A few months ago I was travelling in the West Country on business, and stopped overnight at a small hotel. The only other residents on that cold autumn night were a couple, quite a bit younger than me, staying in the room next to mine. The wife was quite a looker, but fairly demure in her choice of clothes, and they seemed rather quiet.
I showered and changed and went down to the bar to have a drink before dinner. The couple were there, sitting quietly together, and they both looked up as I walked in and went to the bar. A very pretty girl appeared behind the bar, and I got my drink and sat down, quite near the couple, as it was a very small bar. Since we were the only people there we started to chat about the usual mundane things, weather, jobs, where we were from and so on, and when the menus arrived we discussed the choices and ordered at the same time, prompting the pretty girl, who seemed to be doing every job that evening, to ask if we were going to sit together. The attractive wife immediately said yes, if that was ok with me, which, of course, it was.
We went on talking, as the courses and wine were consumed, but as we were near the end of our final course I sensed the couple looking at me a bit strangely, and also glancing meaningfully at each other. Finally, we ordered coffee, and a cognac each, and I noticed the wife raise her eyebrows at her husband, and he nodded his head, almost unperceptively.