Everything that has happened since happened because two exhausted women picked up the wrong black suitcase.
And the thing I cannot get round is that if we had not, those eleven letters would be in a loft now, and she would be carrying it still, and I would be going round telling people what a good friend she is.
And the five days away, which I have had to look at again from her side.
It was my idea. I booked it in the June and I pushed her into it because she said she could not really afford it, and she came.
And she was quiet. I noticed. I said so, twice — once at the airport going out and once on the third evening, and both times she said she was tired.
On the third evening she got as far as taking them out of her case in her room. She has told me that. She had them in her hand and then there was a knock because I wanted to go down for a drink.
