She was not being clever.

She was being literal.

Newborns are swollen, and squashed, and the shape of the last few hours of their own birth, and a three-hour-old caesarean baby looks like her own eyelids, and anybody claiming to identify a chin on one is not making a claim about the chin.

They are making a claim about you.

Kevin’s mother took no notice of her at all.

Not a glance.