Chapter Sixteen
Endless Tuition
He sat in the little plush armchair next to his bed and stared at the screen that he had been compelled to fix to the wall. Hated it, loathed it and loved it. A beautiful hi-resolution screen that was only destined to ever show a single piece of film. Not just once, but all the time. Edith had decided not to allow her husband to control the showing of the film.
Clearly, she could not trust him to watch it when required!
It ran all day, all night, over and over, again and again.
The light of it lit his room with ghostly movement and filled every sleeping hour with the soundtrack that now sounded through his dreams. When she consigned him to his room, it was exactly the punishment that she had explained on the first night.
“This will remind you that lyin
