What happened afterwards.
They wrote to him. Both of them, one letter, in the July, which they did not show me and which I did not ask to see.
They asked to meet him once. Not at his house. In a café in Halbrook, on neutral ground, with me sitting somewhere else in the same café, which was Cai’s condition and which I thought was very sensible and slightly heartbreaking.
He came. I will give him that, and I have to give it to him because it is the only thing I have to give him in this entire account.
Forty minutes. I could see the back of his head.
And what my sons have told me about it is this.
He spent the first ten minutes explaining. The middle twenty on the subject of what I had done. And the last ten asking them about their subjects, which Idris says was “actually all right, he was quite interested.”
And at the end he said he would be in touch about doing it again.
That was the twenty-sixth of July, 2025.
He has not been in touch. It is now fourteen months.
And the thing Dominic actually said, on the stairs at Tannery Hall, about twenty minutes after the ceremony.
