UK, Leysters, afternoon
After breakfast they had chilled a bit and let Nia play in the garden. Then just around noon they had walked down the lane and climbed over the stile into Tom's fields and taken the footpath across to the deer park to Join Bella and Edward, who had driven down the previous evening, for lunch.
It had been a hearty sensible type of lunch, suitable to set up people who were going to be doing hearty sensible things.
"I need some fresh air," Charlie said. "I'm stuffed."
"In that case," Bella said with a smile, "you can all come out with me. There's something Nia might enjoy and it will give you a chance to work some of that lunch off."
She patted Charlie's stomach and he hastily sucked it in.