gap in my answer and worked out, in eleven seconds, everything that four months of sympathetic enquiry had not got anywhere near.
She is doing her nursing training now. I wrote her a reference in the June and I put that story in it, and she rang me and said she was not sure it was the sort of thing you put in a reference.
I said it is exactly the sort of thing.
And the last thing.
I had two things in my bag at that cemetery on the seventeenth of March.
The reading, folded in four.
And a dark green container about the size of a biscuit tin, which had been in a cupboard in my back bedroom for fourteen months.
I did not plan it as a gesture. I want that on the record, because when I told my sister she assumed it had been the plan
