She remembered that he did not make a fuss about it — that he did not say anything like don’t worry, we’ll sort you out, which would have made it a favour.

What she remembers him saying is: “I’ll do it.”

Three words, and then he went and stood by the arch.

And she said — and this is the part I have repeated more than anything else anybody has said to me in three years —

“He stood next to me.

Not against the wall.

Next to me, on my side, about two feet away, for the whole thing.

“I didn’t have anybody there.