Daily Drives with Maxim

The narrator spends her mornings driving with Maxim while Mrs Van Hopper is ill. She feels a feverish excitement, like a schoolboy with a passion for a prefect. She treasures every moment, wishing she could bottle the memory. He teases her, and she wishes she were older and more sophisticated. She tells him she knows nothing about him except that he lived at Manderley and lost his wife. He becomes silent, and she fears she has ruined their friendship.