And I said, when she told me, the thing that everybody says, which is that I would never have done that.

And Evelyn said: “I know.

I knew within about forty minutes.

“But you have to understand that for six years the only information I had about what you were willing to do to me was a document you had signed.”

Part Nineteen: The Test

We did a paternity test.

Evelyn insisted on it, and I did not want to, and she was right and I was wrong, and the argument we had about it on the second night is the only one of that first fortnight I am ashamed of.

My position was that it was insulting.