A doctor who sits down is a doctor who has decided this will not be quick.

“Before you came round, after the surgery, your husband came and found me,” he said.

“And he told me something that I have to say I was not remotely expecting to hear.”

I looked at him and I could hear my own pulse in my ears.

“What did he tell you?”

Part Thirty-One: What He Said

He let out a long breath before he started.

“He told me his mother had been on the telephone to him.