I am going to put one line of it in, because leaving it out has started to do a job I did not intend.
She wrote: You were never going to get anything out of this and you knew it in March, which is the only reason I let it happen at all.
***I let it happen.***
That is her sentence and it is the truest thing anybody has written about the whole business.
Because it was not two people falling into something. It was a woman of sixty-nine, who had about six months left and who had run a department for thirty years, deciding in the March whether to allow a thing that a boy of twenty-two had just put in front of her.
And she thought about it. She laughed for a minute and then she stopped, which is in the first part of this and which I have always told as the moment she saw I meant it.
