When a rumor goes around, it gets to our ears sooner or later,” he told me with a shrug.I nodded sourly. “I was injured and under supervision when...that was supposed to have happened. I can’t exactly sneak away to have an affair and then visit abortion clinics with a concussion and sprained ankle. No one put that together. The short answer without the sordid details is that it caused a lot of damage to our family. When the truth came out, the lie had had so much inertia that the feelings kept. Something, just a sliver of it, that lay icily there; something vaguely dangerous, like a wolf that had had its kill stolen. It was what she’d been waiting for.She shook her head no, as she reclined on the bed. She was probably at her most beautiful there, crabwalking backward on her elbows, starlight limning her shifting profile, all anatomical secrets told in detail without the slightest hint of modesty, or any the worse for the lack of it. She called him over and gave a rather charming. The leukaemia is well advanced, and further therapy will just weaken him. Now it’s just a matter of counting the days.’ Chris just stood there, impassive, the only sign of emotion was a lone tear sliding down his cheek. ‘Does Dad know?’ he asked, his voice cracking. ‘Yes, but he’s refusing to believe it. He wants to talk to you though, you should go in and see him.’ Chris nodded and went into his father’s bedroom. The man lying on the bed was barely recognizable as Chris’ father. Chris always. I ask her if my wife danced with a black guy after I left. I was told there was no black guy around. When I got up to the room Judy was sound asleep. I did not want to wake her up. I got undressed and crawled into bed. Judy had nothing on so I cuddled up to her back. She slightly opened her eyes, gave me a kiss and went right back to sleep.The next morning we both got up around eight. We had set the tours of the falls for Saturday and Sunday. We figured that we were really going to be tired on.