“The end of August, actually.

He mentioned her.

He said something about her being good at cards and I—” and here she stopped, and I watched a woman hear her own sentence for the first time.

“I worked out what it meant.”

“And what did you do?”

And Antonia Rask said: “I asked my mother about it and she said it was two hours a month with her grandfather and that it wasn’t hurting anybody, and that if I made it a thing, it would be a thing.

“And I was going to talk to you about it.