And her hands were going.
All of that was in front of me and I processed none of it, because I had already decided who she was, from things her brother had told me in a car.
And I laughed.
Not unkindly. I laughed the way you laugh when somebody says something a bit odd at a party and you want to move past it without anybody being embarrassed.
And then, within about an hour, I told Grayson.
I told him in the car park while we were waiting for a taxi, as a funny thing that had happened.
He went quiet for a second and then he was very good about it.
He said she has a problem about money. He said she has been strange since their father passed. He said it sadly, and he looked out of the window, and I put my hand on his arm.
