Transfer was in the September. It took first time, which nobody expects and which everybody in that clinic was quietly astonished by.
When the scan said girl, they lost their minds.
The nursery was pink by the November. There were dresses in a drawer in the December for a child who would not fit them until the following autumn.
Lorna bought a cardigan in the January and rang me to describe it for eleven minutes.
Marnie was born on the twenty-ninth of May at twenty past four in the afternoon.
Danny and Lorna were in the corridor and they came in about twenty minutes later.
Lorna cried before she got to the bed.
And then Danny picked her up.
And he had her for about four seconds and then he turned her slightly, the way you do when you are getting a newborn settled on your arm, and the blanket came away off her back.
