He did not defend himself.

Not one syllable of defence came down that telephone line, which I only noticed about a week afterwards and which is the thing I think about when I think about Brian.

A man had come to his door that morning and asked him whether he had slept with his wife.

And when that man’s wife telephoned him from a hospital bed ninety minutes later, the first thing out of his mouth was not I didn’t.

It was he’s here, so that I would know where my husband was.