The woman came in at half past nine, and Zara stood up without thinking about it, because that is what you do when a woman of that age comes into a room.
She was perhaps sixty-five. Small. Grey hair set the way women of that generation set it, once a week, permanently. A cardigan that had cost more than Zara's coat and was doing an excellent impression of not having.
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