"About my illness?"
"Yes."
"Of course I do."
"I said then that I wouldn't accept the usual money compensation for anything I had been able to do for you."
"Yes, but—"
"And I told you you could compensate me in another way."
"What way?"
"That's what I'm going to try and tell you now. But—but it's not easy. I want you to understand—I want you to understand."
There was a moment of silence. Then Nigel said:
"But what? Understand what?"