ABSTRACT

He was sitting on the edge of the sun lounger, head bowed, but then he looked up at her, and she realised with a jolt that the child she had known was gone. A familiar verse leapt into her head. ‘When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.’ She pulled her chair closer, and said, ‘Go on, Daniel.’