It took nine weeks and it was the most sustained piece of work she ever did.
Julian brought it home in pieces. That was the arrangement, unspoken: he could not be seen to be alarmed at the office, so he was alarmed in the kitchen, and she made him tea and asked the stupid, careful, useful questions of a woman who did not understand the business.
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