What does it feel like to be found in that way, to have somebody walk into your life, put the money down on the table and say, Come on, or did he say, Let’s go, or did he say nothing at all, did he sit momentarily and give an account of himself, did he threaten or bribe you? Were you afraid, secretly, were you hoping, secretly, that he would take off your head, take the decision away from you? All we can be sure of now is that there was a split in your life, a before and an after,

