Maano kisi ne sachme jamke chudhayi ki ho meri. Main maa ke peeche khade papa ko dekhi jo ghabrakar khade the.Papa ko tension mein dekh main boli: Mai... mmm… meri aankh lag gayi thi yaha laete laete.Maa andar kamre mein jaati hui taana maari: Raat se dopahar tak soti hai aur ab bhi iski aankh lag rahi hai.Maa ke kamre mein jaate hi main turant papa ko dekhi. Woh apne maathe se pasina poch rahe th. Mujhe dekh huff karte hue honto ko hila ke bina awaaz ke bole: bach gaye.Woh fir mere paas aakar. Do you have a blanket?”She laughed and poked me in the shoulder. “I haven’t forgotten.”She looked over to the stairs, then got up and ran upstairs. I heard her talking to her dad, then she came back downstairs and closed the door behind her at the bottom of the stairs. She closed the door. I have never seen that door closed. This will NOT look normal to her dad. She crawled onto the couch, laying back on my right, on the side pillow, feet towards me. She tucked her bare feet under my. Back in london Sally tells Havers all about the meeting with the eccentric artist ‘something puzzled me-i saw a book in his library -it was called school of correction’-for some reason he wouldn’t let me see it!’-Havers just nodded knowingly-‘Sally-i have a proposition for you-if you can persuade him to exhibit his paintings at my art gallery i will pay you five grand!’ Sally almost fainted! ‘five grand!!! ‘ ‘Sally – if you can persuade the old buzzard to do this,then you deserve every. While he had waited for the next one he had a drink to calm his nerves and repeatedly told himself it was over now. To the people on the train he had been just another middle-aged man in a raincoat. Perhaps some of them would tell their loved ones about the incident, probably have a good laugh about it too, but tomorrow not one of them would even recognize him. As for the people who did know him, the people in the village, they were hours away, up north in the valley. They would never find out.