And a woman I did not know, who arrived nine minutes late, in a grey coat, who stood at the back and did not speak to anybody and left before the end.

I thought about that woman for six days.

She is Teresa Aguinaldo and she had driven from Saint Paul and she did not come forward because she did not know who I was and did not want to intrude on a widow, and it took a letter and an hour in a records office before either of us worked out that we had been eleven feet apart.

Part Twelve: What He Had