Possible Clues:

• A deep affection around college for one of those in the bar
• Caught in embrace of a sweetheart: hole-in-the-wall affair
• Place in which one may hide a sweetheart, roughly bundled in!
• Opening a chapter in deep affection
• Nook or recess
• A large bay, or recess
• Tucked-away recess
• Bay opening off a room
• Statue spot
• Recess for reading