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I saw the sparkling crescent in the fieldof my vision that always heralds the pounding in my head. He didn't push me, was what Jill Foster said to Barbara Havers in theambulance. Just the three of us: Dad, Raphael, and I. I'm so terribly sorry for all ofthem, she said.

He'd spent two years in Burma as aprisoner of the Japanese, and he'd never recovered from thatcompletely. Cresswell-White gave a brief smile that disappeared asquickly as it flashed on his face. Of course. In this fashion, the two of them walked not to thestation but along the Upper Richmond Road in the direction ofWandsworth.