I was at Fort Sam Houston.

I had been on shift until two.

I had four hours of sleep and my phone rang and it was his name on it, which it had not been in about seven weeks.

He said: “Val.

Something’s happened.

You need to sit down.”

I want to reproduce what he actually said, because I have gone over it several hundred times and the construction of it is the thing.

He said that Sophia had been unwell on Friday.