He gave me the combination on the fourth day.

I want that in here, because it is the kind of detail that gets left out of these accounts and it is the most important one.

He gave it to me.

He was not trying to stop me eating.

He was demonstrating a fact about the house, and once the fact had been demonstrated the lock could come off, and it did, and we never discussed it again, ever, in nine more years of marriage.

Julian was fifteen.