IN LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH - Part Three
For the next few weeks, Simon and Louise continued to visit the cemetery every Wednesday. But they did not speak. Their conversation on the bench seemed to recede into the distance, almost as though it had never happened. Simon would arrive, visit Lucy’s grave and sometimes sit for a while on the bench. Louise would come to see Frederick and Benjamin. Occasionally they would notice one another, but neither made any effort to continue the conversation they had started. Life, on the surface at least, seemed to have returned to the way it had been before. Yet Simon had not forgotten Louise’s offer. I’ve got time. The words stayed with him. He found it difficult to accept what she had offered. Simon was, after all, a solicitor. More than that, he was a partner in a successful firm. For years he had carefully constructed the person other people saw: composed, professional, dependable and always in control. He had become very good at it. Atkinson and Carmichael knew no...