![]() ![]() Instead, it came out as an unintelligible moan of protest. ![]() “Here, I’ll get you another this one’s gone cold,” he said, taking up the mug and turning to leave. In fact, Peter used to do crosswords with her a lot, too. ![]() She supposed it was his way of keeping things normal. She was little use now, of course, though he still read out clues to the room. She and her husband would often do them together of a Saturday afternoon. The upturned page revealed a partly-done crossword puzzle. Fortunately, Susan’s husband sat attentively by the bed as he had done for days, and he noticed the movement. Even that small movement set her heart pounding and her breath labouring. With a forced effort, she raised her hand to reach for the china mug on the bedside table, but the overwhelming fatigue that had been gradually draining her energy over the past weeks would not allow it. Her mouth had gone dry again, she noticed, running a dry tongue across dryer lips. Susan quietly pondered the puzzle, her mind straying in disconnected patterns. ‘Foolish’ seems to be the dress-code for most young people these days.” ![]()
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