Subject: January
From: N.Wharton@QueenElizabeth.org.sa
Date: 23/9/13
To: KitKat123@hotmail.co.uk
Dear Kat,
We are now coming to England in the middle of January instead. I am telling you in the hope that you might change your mind about that cup of tea with Eleanor?
It would be fun, surely, to lay some old ghosts to rest. Who was it who said life was lived forwards but understood backwards…? Nietzsche, I think?
Look, just don’t rule it out, okay?
Nick x
Subject: Reply
From: KitKat123@hotmail.co.uk
Date: 24/9/13
To: N.Wharton@QueenElizabeth.org.sa
I do rule it out.
It was Kierkegaarde.
Understood or not, the past is best left where it lies. I knew that once, but temporarily forgot it.
Now please forgive me for that by leaving me alone.