It’s just Thursday.”

Part Thirteen: A Year and a Half Later

The dog’s name is Waffle, which was Gemma’s suggestion, and which was ratified in a household vote that Chadworth lost four to one.

He is a golden retriever of monumental stupidity and total goodness, and he came from a rescue in the next county in the spring, and Dr.

Boateng had suggested him — not as a therapy animal, she was clear about that, but because “a house with something noisy and alive in it is a different kind of house.”

She was right, as it turned out.