That is the whole of what I have to say, and it took me a year and a half to see it, and it is sitting in that one sentence about a hand under a head.

She waited until I had her before she let go.

Not let me do it. Not taking her from me and settling her and handing her over finished.

She got underneath, and she held the weight, and she stayed there taking it until the moment I could take it myself, and then she took her hand away and did not mention it.

That is what had been in the picture I had been looking at in the dark for five weeks.