Loll is big on commenting ‘as a mother’.
Who gets to feel more, as an anything, I always think.
So how could she, who places so much emphasis on her identity as a mother, believe that what Romilly did was okay?
She read me, then.
‘I am not saying what she’s done is great,’ she rasped because I had been inching tighter and tighter incrementally. ‘I am saying that what she has done may, perhaps, be understandable. Given a very unusual set of circumstances.’
‘Which are?’
‘You tell me, Marc,’ she said and I felt her throat move beneath my hands again. ‘You tell me.’
I tightened.
And tightened.
And tightened.