“I’m more astute than you give me credit for, Elizabeth. I may not be as brilliantly observant as you and Francesca are, but I am not stupid. I’ve known for a while, by the way. It’s far more obvious than you think.”
“We’re keeping people waiting. Whatever you think it is you have figured out…”
“…It’s because of your mother, right?”
Elizabeth shrugged, as if it was no big deal.
“She’s been in that hospice for two months. I’ve been expecting them to call for the past few weeks, but I haven’t heard a thing. I’m not trying to hide the way I feel about it, it’s just difficult to stop myself thinking about it when I am on my own and very easy to forget when I am with him. It’s been getting to me a little; I’ll get a message or whatever and my phone goes off and I think ‘this is it, this is
