Chapter 13Thandi poured herself a cup of tea and took a cupcake from the trestle table laid out in the foyer of the conference centre. The little sweet looked so tiny and lonely in her palm that she selected a friend for it.
‘They look delicious.’
She turned and saw a woman smiling at her and pointing down at the cupcakes in her hand. Thandi felt a flush of guilt.
‘I won’t tell anyone you snuck a second.’
Thandi gave a guilty laugh. The rest of her group were together at the other side of the room, talking and sipping tea and coffee, and Thandi, who had just been to the bathroom in the break between lectures, had been about to join them. ‘Excuse me.’
The woman started to move, to give her room, then paused. ‘Sorry, can I just ask you a question?’
‘Of course,’ Thandi said.
‘Do you kn
