‘Of course you had a choice.’
‘Will you listen?’
‘I’m listening.’
‘You’re being snide.’
‘Just tell me.’
‘That weekend he was leaving for a conference in Amsterdam.’
‘And?’
‘I was to be out the day of the flight, returning to you before he left.’
‘That tells me nothing.’
‘That was the Sunday. On the Saturday, he went to his office to work, leaving me alone with you. I saw that he’d already started packing. He never packed the day before. He always, without exception, packed at the last minute. And there was his suitcase, all packed and ready. A very heavy suitcase. Far too much for just a few days.’
‘He might have wanted options,’ Ginny said sarcastically. ‘The weather might have been variable.’
‘Wilhelm was not the sort to care about such things. He was a habitual dresser. Alway
