‘No worries. Anyway, my sister phoned. They want her to illustrate the calendar for Kew Gardens.’
‘Lots of plants. She’s really pleased.’ He smiled.
He seemed happy for this sister of his who Nora had never heard of.
She wanted to thank him for being so good about her dead cat, but she obviously couldn’t so she just said, ‘Thank you.’
‘For what?’ ‘Just, you know, everything.’ ‘Oh. Right. Okay.’
‘So, thank you.’ He nodded. ‘That’s nice. Anyway, run time.’
He drained his coffee and then disappeared. Nora scanned the room, absorbing every new piece of information.
Every cuddly toy and book and plug socket, as if they were all part of the jigsaw of her life.
An hour later, Molly was being dropped off at her infant school and Nora was doing the usual.
Checking her emails and social media. Her social media activity wasn’t great in this life,
which was always a promising sign, but she did have a hell of a lot of emails.
From these emails she divined that she was not simply ‘stopping’ teaching at the moment but had officially stopped.
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