"Why thank ye." Bert replied gratefully accepting his half of the sticky sweet treat. As a trainee policeman in Middlesbrough, Bert recalled how he had been instructed: "A policeman should be morally upright with few vices." Bert tried his best to live up to those words, but the bakers shop was a regular earthly temptation for him.

"Are ye new to Whitby, Miss O'Connor?" he asked by way of conversation. Surely he would have recognised such a pretty face on his beat before?