‘When did you hear?’ he asked. ‘How do you know?’
I said:
‘This morning, at breakfast. It was in The Times, you know.’
He said:
‘You never told me! Why didn’t you tell me then?’
I said:
‘I couldn’t tell you. It was too bad for that.’
We stood and looked at each other.
I thought:
‘He doesn’t care . . .’