She looked at that baby for a long time.
And she said: “Whose is that?”
And I said: “Yours.”
And she turned round and went back into the ladies.
She has not contacted me since. Not once, in a year. She has a granddaughter she has seen precisely once, from eight feet, in a corridor, and what she did was go back through a door.
Ellis saw us at about five. He came over with a glass in his hand and looked at the top of that baby’s head, and I watched a man do arithmetic in roughly four seconds.
And he said: “Is that why you came?”
And I said no, and it was true, and he did not believe me, and he went back to his wedding.
And the speeches, which I sat through with a baby on me.
Ellis spoke for nine minutes. He said the word family eleven times. I counted, because I needed something to do with my head.
