She came in with her handbag still on her shoulder and one half of her hair pinned up and the other half simply not, which is how I knew what the telephone call had sounded like from her end.

She did not come to me first.

She went to the bassinets, both of them, and she put her hand on each of their heads in turn and said something to each of them that I did not hear, and then she came round the bed and sat down on the edge of it and took my face in both of her hands and looked at me for about four seconds.

And then she said: “Right.”