And I want to be fair to myself, because I have been very unfair to myself about this for a year.
I was not working out what I would get. I was seventy-two and I was being asked to marry a dying man after fifty-five years and I wanted to know what I was walking into.
And that is a reasonable thing to want to know.
And it is also forty minutes on a laptop looking up a man’s house between him asking and me answering.
What the note says.
It is dated the twelfth, which is the Wednesday. The middle of that week.
And it is addressed to Gethin Floyd, not to me, and it is instructions.
It says that if Connie Dare says yes, there is to be nothing for her in the estate. Not the house, not a share of anything, not a sum.
And then it says why, and this is the line.
