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The three of them were huddled together in the front seat. We shouldhave known, we should have put some of it aside, but who’d ever have thought it would end. I’ve got to remember to remind myself: if I ever use that phrase again, may my carbons always bereversed. “From when do you think he comes?” Soames shrugged.

And what he had wanted to know seemed inconsequentialcompared to the choices he saw listed. Bob said, “Would he want me to writethis?” They knew he’d call me, and they told him no, I’d be angry. I was free of debt, twenty pounds heavier, secure for the first time in my life,and reasonably happy. They are tending him.