She did not do it as a revelation.

That was Delia’s advice and it was, I think, the best professional advice anybody gave anybody in this whole account.

She did not say I have something to tell you. She sat down on a Saturday morning and said, in effect: you know how you’ve asked me a few times about your dad, and I’ve said he was in the Army and I didn’t know where he was?

Well, I know where he is now.