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You’ve always known that you were going to die some time. Well, now you know when. That’s all.” He laughed. “Just make the most of what you’ve got left.”
“Maybe we’ve been too silly to deserve a world like this,” he said.
“I don’t think you’re nuts,” she said. They walked together in silence to the beach.
We’ve all got to die one day, some sooner and some later. The trouble always has been that you’re never ready, because you don’t know when it’s coming. Well, now we do know, and there’s nothing to be done about it. I kind of like that. I kind of like the thought that I’ll be fit and well up till the end of August and then—home. I’d rather have it that way than go on as a sick man from when I’m seventy to when I’m ninety.”
He mollified her, accustomed to the charge of being a heartless father.
“We’ve all got to die one day,”
It really do be like that.
Sharon wouldn’t mind me doing this. It’s from us both.”
self-pity was a stupid thing, or was it the brandy?
