It turns out Adam was right – having an instructor is way better than having Will try to teach me.

To my relief, we are back on the nursery slope we started on yesterday morning. Jean-Marc snakes slowly in front of me as we practise snowploughing – up the magic carpet and down the little slope, again, again, and again.

‘I think your boyfriend was too quick to take you to the green slope,’ he says after what seems like about ten goes. ‘I think you are ready to move on to the green now. But only if you want.’

So we do the green slope again. And by twelve o’clock, I am exhausted, but I can kind of ski, and can even almost see why people find it fun. My annoyance at Will for rushing me and then abandoning me has almost gone, I’m so delighted with myself. I can’t wait to show him what I can do.

Exhausted but exhilarated, I head off to the restaurant where I’m due to meet Will at twelve thirty. I can even carry my skis now without dropping them since Jean-Marc took the time to show me how to do it properly, resting the bindings behind my shoulder and not in front like I was trying to do before. It’s all looking good. I’m going to be able to do this after all.

I order myself a celebratory vin chaud and look at the menu. I hope Will has had a good morning with Adam and Nell. I hope he’s got loads of skiing done because now I want to spend the afternoon skiing with him without him feeling like he’s doing me a favour. I’m still very far from fast, but I’m not as slow as I was. It won’t be torturous for him like yesterday clearly was. We’ll do a few easy runs together, we’ll stop for a drink, I’ll leave him to go and do a few more slopes on his own because that’s the kind of nice, tolerant girlfriend I am today, and then I’ll go back to the chalet, not dropping my skis all over the place, so I’ll be showered and ready for him when he gets back and we can have amazing sex. Then we will go for dinner and I won’t feel intimidated or bored by Adam and Nell because I know how to ski now and I understand what they are talking about and will even be able to join in with the conversation and tell them about the slopes I skied and which lifts I went on and use words like schuss correctly. It will all be perfect.