I said something.

I do not remember what.

She said: “I knew.

Not everything — I didn’t know what he’d told you.

But I’d been on that unit for two days and I’d seen him with Linus and I’d seen the family meetings go past in the corridor and I knew you hadn’t been up.

Nobody had been up except him and his mother.

“And on the Saturday I was helping the bereavement coordinator with the boxes and I saw your name and I thought: she hasn’t been up here once.