Aedd flinched, they all noticed.
Amanda calmed and put her hand on Aedd’s bony shoulder to comfort him. She thought a little deeper. She was not so confident, her final query had tailed off – did her husband know something? Had he already spoken to Seb in his cemetery shed? Might he have used the phone while she was in the bathroom this morning? She had lingered over her ablutions longer than was normal, knowing it was foolish to leave Jack unattended for too long, but she discarded this thought as he always asked her to dial for him, to save his finger, which was frequently preserved in order to better pick his nose and for pointing, though these days, more often than not, if Mandy’s fingers were not available, he used his briar pipe to point and pick his nose, which is why when he offer
