Reflection 14They say that when a person is drowning they see their whole life pass before their eyes in the space of two seconds.
I know that when David walked into the room a few minutes ago that’s what happened to me.
Not indeed my whole life, but I saw again everything that had happened that miserable week before he went away.
He was so kind when he drove me back from Bray Park that I felt all our misunderstandings were over.
In some extraordinary way of his own and doubtless by tipping lavishly he got the nightwatchman to wake up a housemaid who packed my clothes. The nightwatchman then brought my suitcases and David’s to the car.
Before that, David had come back to me and told me what he had arranged. He sat in the car beside me and I slipped my hand into his and said,
“Please
