“And nobody called,” Carmen said.

“So that was that.

I’d done three.

I wasn’t going to do a fourth.”

I said something like, “That’s a message on a scrap of paper in a trucking office eight years ago, Carmen, there’s no telling where that went,” and I want to record that I said it in a reasonable voice and that I believed it, and that I was already, somewhere underneath, extremely frightened.

And she said: “The woman’s name was Sheena.”

Sheena Prather started with us in 2012 and she is still with us.

She runs the accounts office.

She has been at every Christmas thing we have ever had.

I went in on the Monday.