what you wanted to do. If you need help, or if you need anything else, anything at all, please ask me.’ He expected her to reply with the well-tried phrases ‘You’re very good,’ or ‘you’re a good man, Frank Albertovich,’ but instead she said that there were people who needed help more than she did. That’s unquestionably true, he thought, and perhaps I’m one of them. But he felt disconcerted.
