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‘Miller would look delicious in a sack’ She s it in hers It’s a coiven who’s the sick one here, but it also abruptly makes me wonder what Nan knows ‘How are you, sweetheart?’

‘Fine’ I don’t knohat else to say, or what I should say Need to know and all that, but does she really need to kno? I need to speak to William

‘Hmmm’ She eyesto e the direction of conversation ‘Didn’t you prefer the private room?’

‘Don’t you start!’ She dropsthe re stuffed in that roolance around at the other beds on a slight s these poor folks crackers And the nurse definitely looked like she’d had her fill ‘How are you feeling?’ I ask, finding her seated for with the lines in her arm ‘Leave them!’

Her palms slap the arms of the chair on a huff ‘I’ nity is being seriously compromised and she’s evidently not happy about it ‘Do as you’re told,’ I warn ‘You’re here for a reason’

‘A mild flutter of my heart, that’s all’

‘You h

‘Tell hter is sucked up in a second and I’ aardly as I searchto me

‘I asked you to tell ly, and I chance a glance at her, finding a face to match her tone ‘Not how you came to be there’

My lips ether in an atte out on a sob I couldn’t love this woed, and I let her pull irl, I y body ‘Although I was kept busy feeding three strapping men’

I frown into her bosom ‘Three?’

‘Yes’ Nan lets me free froe, Gregory, and Williaathered around Nan’s dinner table, tucking into so all overWilliam?’