He gave the latest anti-snoring gizmo a try, without success.
It wasn’t a case of him not giving it a go, he did. The whole business was just too complicated. She had been very patient with him, but at the same time she was constantly suggesting some other contraption that he could try. The whole problem revolved around the fact that she wasn’t getting a good night’s sleep. It all came down to his snoring. Naturally, he felt bad about it. Anyway, the solution suddenly popped into his head out of the blue one day. With no idea where it came from, he decided to try it out, anyway. It didn’t take long to set it up while she was out at the shops. He took the sleeping bag from the shed, made sure it was clean and dry, then he poked it under the bed in the spare room.
That night he tried it out.
He laid quietly for a few minutes until she went off to sleep. Then, he silently got out of bed, closed the bedroom door, collected his bedroll, opened it out on the settee in the lounge, set his mobile phone to vibrate twenty minutes before her alarm went off, and went to sleep. The whole thing went off without a hitch. After a few weeks of this, she made the comment that she was sleeping a lot better.
Meanwhile, each morning she wakes, just before her alarm sounds. With eyes partly open and hidden, she sees him as he very carefully climbs back into bed. Her eyes close again. She smiles to herself at the thought that he’s convinced that she doesn’t know.
She also thinks, he’s such a love!