At 7:20 a.m. My Bank Manager Said There Was Six Figures of Debt in My Name

at something that did not survive in my memory but whose warmth did. I looked at it some evenings and thought about what Emma had told me, that he had changed his will to protect me, that he had tried to warn her, that he had said at the end: watch out for Margaret if anything happens to me.

He had loved me carefully, with the kind of forethought that continue reading …