back. ‘I prefer it that way. It means I don’t get locked in. It’s hard to persuade an employer to give you three months off every spring so that you can vanish to the Himalayas.’
‘But surely you won’t want to do that for ever? Won’t you want to settle down and get married?’
Juliet kept her eyes forward. ‘I’m not very good at staying in one place,’ she said eventually. ‘And marriage isn’t for everyone.’
Something flickered inside her and she pushed it away. She’d never been interested in settling down, and she never would be.
She needed to know that she could just pack a bag and go, wherever she wanted to go, whenever she wanted to go there, without reference to another person.
She needed to know that her heart wouldn’t be broken.
She walked deep in thought as the path snaked through rhododendrons and fragrant blue pine and fir. A little later they crossed the river again into the Sagarmartha National Park.
They stopped at the guard post so that Neil could deal with the special permits that they’d purchased in Kathmandu.
‘Why all the security?’ Simon muttered, watching while an armed guard checked all the paperwork.
‘Because selling permits is big business to them,’ Neil told him. ‘No one gets in unless they’ve paid. They’re also monitoring the traders. There’s a large military base not far from here.’
The guards were clearly satisfied with what they saw because the group was allowed to pass and Juliet swung her pack off her back and drank, exhorting the others to do the same.
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