And I said, “Yes.”

And she said, “You know they can tell.”

Which had not occurred to me for a single second and which put a hole through me.

She said: “Not consciously.

Nora thinks you look at her face before you talk to her.

She has not made anything of it.

But she is five and she is the noticing one, and in about a year she will have made something of it, and then it will be a thing you have to undo.

“So tell them.”