That is the whole of the promise, in both directions, in about nine seconds.
He asked. I said he was all right. He let me.
ITEM 6. THE FIVE MONTHS.
April to September.
I did not go to anybody. I was very good about that; I did not tell my daughter, I did not tell the shop, I did not ring his granddaughter in Prescott.
I also did not say one word to him.
Five months of Thursday teas in that kitchen, every week, the two of us.
It came up once, on about the second of July, when he could not find the word for the thing you boil water in.
He laughed about it. He said: “Here we go.”
That was my opening and he handed it to me himself, and I said something about how I do that all the time.
I do not do that all the time. I am seventy-four and my head is fine.
