Every time.

He never once said it was cold.

He was very yellow by then and he was sleeping about twenty hours a day and the nurse, Rochelle, had told me on the Friday to think in terms of days.

He was awake when I got there.

He said, “There she is.”

And then he said: “Can you stay a while today?”

And I looked at my watch — I actually looked at my watch, I did that, with my hand still on a coffee cup — and I said, “I’ve got about five minutes before work.”