Chapter 23
We're nearly there now. Little streets have started to replace the flat green fields either side of the tracks; only two or three houses, some of them but it's like a message - telling us that it's time. Abigail's mother has gone quiet again after what she told us. She's just sitting there calmly like she's told us nothing more important than the time or when the next bus is due and I wonder what she's thinking about now. I also wonder why she didn't just get off at the station when she realised her husband wasn't on the train this time but I suppose she's thinking there's a chance he'll be at the cemetery; that he's maybe laying low somewhere in Surrey, only coming out to make covert trips to the graveyard to pay his respects. He won't be there though, I'm almost sure of it but I suddenly
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