Three weeks had passed since Uncle Bob"s heart attack and Annie"s return home. We"d tried not to show too much excitement at being with Annie and doing all the things that must have appeared completely normal to Kathleen and Bob. We busied ourselves with visiting Uncle Bob and keeping an eye on Aunt Kathleen. Gabe took on Bob"s role, maintaining his allotment and doing any household chores that needed a strong hand, while he was convalescing in hospital. Aunt Kathleen"s eyes sparkled with an open soft spot for the new man in the family and Bob was happy to talk "allotment and market garden business", as he put it, with Gabe.
Each evening we were all together felt strange and I prayed that it wouldn"t always be so, that I wouldn"t always feel as if we were being insincere or disloyal to Au
