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"I keep thinking about him all the time," Hannah said, "every minute and even when I’m asleep I do"

"You don’t think when you’re asleep, duh"

"I do so, I think about Daddy"

"You dream when you’re asleep"

"I do that as well"

"He’d like us to be up here"

"Not without him he wouldn’t"

"I’ll open the flask," Simon said

In the end, Saether on a tree trunk, not looking at one another, not speaking, but with their ar

"Don’t worry"

"I’et a Friday afternoon for once"

"I haven’t had a day off in weeks and then there’s to, do you?"

"Yes If so I don’t want my back to be turned"

"It won’t be your fault"

"I know, I know The Chief’s going, every ARV in three counties will be in place, royal protection is doubled All the sa to happen"

"Oh, I know"

"How near can the public get? There’s usually a big crowd for a society wedding"

"Cordoned off on the other side of St Michael’s Street but they’ll get a view The Lord Lieutenant was adamant I left him to sort out RP"

"Wonder what Camilla ear?"

Simon looked blank "Reader," Cat said, "she ht old china s

"Have you decided what to do about the funeral?"

Cat sighed Chris had always said he didn’t want any kind of service If you were not religious, he said, then nothing was better than so his illness he had said nothing about it at all and there was no htforill

"I can’t bear nothing Just … nothing Apart froe the children need to help the"

"I think you do what you want … because it’s for you and the children now and I bet that’s why Chris left it open"

She turned to hi like joy "I hadn’t thought of it like that Do you really believe it?"

"Absolutely Whatever your beliefs are, your funeral is for the ones still living What do you really want?"

"Cathedral Of course Not a great fuss but a proper funeral"

"Then that’s what you should do Talk to theiven," Cat said "Sorry"

"I know"

"There’s so else"

"Say"

"Dad And Judith"

"They’ll have to have what they’re given too, won’t they?"

"I didn’t mean that"

He was silent Ahead of theether

"Don’t be difficult"

"No"

"I think they’ll probably ether now Nobody has said anything, it’s just a hunch And I want you to be prepared so you don’t go up in flaabout it yesterday And weddings sort of breed"

"Didn’t know she had a daughter"

"Yes, Vivien--and a son too Judith is going to a wedding fair Tomorrow, I think it is At the Riverside It feels unreal The world goes on, people are getting ht, babies are being born, the super and Chris is dead I can’t take it in I’ve been with dying and death alllife and I can’t take it in"

Siht, frail Vulnerable

"But I did the right thing, didn’t I?"

"With Sa"

"He said so to me"

"Oh, Simon, you didn’t tell me"

"No, because he made me promise not to But he’s fine Truly and absolutely I promise you that"