[10:52 BST.]
Sarah did not get up.
She had one more thing. I could see her deciding whether to say it, which Sarah almost never did, because Sarah said everything the second she'd decided it was true.
"There's a thing with Mama," she said. "It's not mine to tell you. But you should go and find him before he goes home, because he won't bring it to you, and he should."
"Where is he?"
"Boot room. On his own. He's been in there twenty minutes."
I found him in the boot room.
He was sitting on the low bench under the pegs with a phone in his hand, not using it, just holding it, the way you hold a phone after a call has ended and you have not decided what the call meant yet. The boots hung in rows above him. It smelled of leather and dubbin and the spray Rebecca uses. Drip went a tap somewhere that the kit lads never fully turn off.
"Mama."
"Daniel."
I sat down on the bench next to him.
