Concern was in Edmond's eyes as he looked at Maxie and walked around the bed.

"You are not asleep yet, my love. Is something the matter? What have you been doing until now?"

He first sat on the bed, long enough to remove his slippers and admire Maxie's form for a moment. After that, he crawled into the bed. The fact that Maxie necessarily had most of the blankets only meant that Edmond would lay even closer to him, something to which he was far from objecting.