Part Sixty-Two: The One Person You Couldn’t Ask

“You weren’t here for that because you’d decided I was the one person in the world you couldn’t put the question to.”

He did not argue with it.

That is worth recording, because he could have.

There were four or five things available to him and any one of them would have been at least partly fair, and a great many men would have reached for one.

He could have said that he had been told his children were not his, which is a thing that would knock anybody sideways.