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question of whether they had “done” it. He couldn’t stomach this verb , truly, but in order not to be crude, yet intelligible, he had to avail to its services - it was, in any case, attributing the exact shade of meaning he was aiming for and was a perfect match with “happened”. No, no, she was quick to soothe him, without necessar-ily the zest to convince. He didn’t insist. On the con-trary, he carried on chewing, in a way at least to hint that it was a chore for him to do so. It was all in vain in the end however; the seriousness of the situation, plus the fact that Lila quite likely considered that any other biological function apart from breathing at that precise moment was condemnable meant that the only thing he managed to do was to infuriate her, until she sarcas-tically observed: do try at least to hold back the tears!

The relief she had found in drawing up enough cour-age to talk to him about something that she dreaded he would take badly was totally spoiled by his not tak-ing it so badly after all. An even as a matter-of-form, healthy dose of stupefaction, garnished with plenty of disgust, stuffed with despair, accompanied by a sauce full of devastation, the whole of it laced with hyste-ria and maybe a sprinkle of amok on his behalf, was something that as much as it didn’t suit her – by fill-ing her with guilt for the rest of her life for having