Chapter 59 · for subscribers
Four months ago I came up this lane on a borrowed bicycle in the rain to find out whose letter I had answered. I came up it again at midnight on the fifth of November with eleven returned envelopes, thirteen cut strips of paper, a mason's bill for my own gravestone, and a letter from my brother in my cardigan — and the one thing I had come back to say was still a question I had not worked out how to put to a dying woman.
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