I said I might be back the following summer, but secretly I felt this would be the last time I would ever visit. ‘I’ll have it winterised,’ he said. ‘I’ll get the police to stop by once a day. We don’t want another break-in.’ ‘You might invest in a burglar alarm,’ I said.‘...
And even after spending some time with him, I found that his face was still overlaid by the younger one that I had spent so many hours remembering. ‘I knew a Makepeace once,’ he said. He snapped his fingers for someone to pour him a drink. The blind can have a bossy way about them. I lied and tol...