“I"m sorry about that, Harry. I don"t know what came over me…I"m not normally that open about that chapter in my life. I think it was seeing you trying to make sense of what David said; how there were doubts, but nothing was done. If it had been, I mean, if Willis and Howell had been arrested sooner then all this would have happened before now. You can see that, can"t you?”
“Yeah, of course I can. It just seemed so futile, having intelligence and not using it. I wish I had cottoned-on sooner, or that you had. I keep thinking that if I had told Trimble all I knew on that Wednesday, or better still on the Sunday when Special Branch told me, then maybe Teddy would still be around. It"s like you said…we all make mistakes.”
“Yours wasn"t a mistake, Harry. If you had known everything, which wa
