About the second retrieval, and the drive back from Newport, and the soup.

She said she had thought about that day constantly, and that she had not been able to work out how the woman who bought that soup and the woman who did what she did could be the same person, and that she had concluded, eventually, that they were, and that this was the actual thing she had to live with.

I did not reply.

I want to explain that, because it looks like coldness and it is not.