There was no furniture but windows all the way down to the floor on two sides. Said she’d never been so cold in her life. She didn’t really eat much, in fact apart from a few sips of juice and a nibble or two at the toast she didn’t really eat anything at all. We are she as well. Am I interrupting plans you had? I’ll take it along with me, though, as a memory, along with that photo of Mam. By the time she got up it was past eleven. Not on your life, I told her, Aunt Flo’s still hanging around and I’ve got the cramps from her. Now I’m sitting by her, watching her sleep, her eyelids flicker in dreams, and my heart beats with every pulse of hers. “All right,” he said, to my astonishment. But those hooligans wouldn’t be getting around much for a few days after I was done with them.
