And I told her that the girls and I were going to go up and meet the ship, and that I thought she should come, because she had not met them properly yet either and because it would be lovely.
And that is what I said to a woman of fifty-nine.
And she said yes straight away and she was delighted about it, and she paid me back for the ticket the week after and I took it.
And I knew what she was going to see.
And the breakfast at half seven on the Saturday, which I have put in as a detail and which I should sit in.
Forty minutes, the two of us and the girls, in a hotel dining room.
And she talked about what she was going to say to him and what she had brought for them, and she had a bag with two little things in it that she had wrapped.