If I had it in my bag at seven in the morning, I could have been at his house at half seven.
He lives thirty feet away. The hearing was at ten.
I could have knocked on that door with the list in my hand and done the thing I promised him in the April, with two and a half hours in hand.
ITEM 10b. WHAT HE DID WHEN I STOOD UP.
I have told this with him turning round and saying Eunice, you promised, which he did.
What I leave out is the four or five seconds before it.
He did not turn round straight away.
He knew it was me from the first word, obviously — thirty years — and he stood facing that judge with his back to me and did not move.
Then he put his head down.
Then he turned round.
In those four seconds, a man of a hundred and one worked out that the thing he had been managing since the January was about to be taken out of his hands in public, and decided what his face was going to do.
