been in a tin since 1991 and he had got it out that morning and put it in his pocket and gone down to the day room with it.
He never produced it. He got as far as one knee and a sentence and then I bent down to pick him up and the moment went, and he put it back in the tin that afternoon and did not mention it once in the following five months.
And in his written instructions, in among the coffin and the hymn and the business about no sandwiches with egg in, there is a line about that ring.
It is not left to me.
It goes to Nancy’s great-niece, a woman of forty-one in another county who he had met twice, and who came to the funeral, and who did not know it existed.
Which is correct. Which is obviously correct, and which
