Four questions in eight days.

Here is what I did not ask.

I did not ask what he had done for a living.

I did not ask how he had ended up on that pavement, which is the question everybody assumes I asked first.

I did not ask whether he had been married before.

I did not ask whether he had ever had children.

I did not ask where he was born or where he had lived or what his mother was called.

I did not ask him why he wanted it to be me.