As if to further prove his point, Antonin followed up his words with a kiss she wouldn't soon forget. It was difficult to part ways. Hermione tried to talk herself out of it at least half a dozen times before she finally made the first step outside. It occurred to her only later when she was climbing into the bed in her borrowed bedroom across the corridor from Rodolphus" that despite believing secrets were poison, she hadn't even considered telling Antonin the ones she was still keeping.