Next to Kathleen, an “equals” sign joins her name to Rose’s. Rose takes off her glasses.
It could be the stale air, the reeling sense of the familiar awash with the foreign, the ocean finally giving up her dead — Anthony is suddenly seasick.
“Sit down,” says Lily.
He drops to his haunches and puts his head between his knees. Lily gets a cool wet cloth from the kitchen and places it on the back of his neck.
“Breathe,” she says.
He does.
That’s better.
“What the hell is ethnomusicology?” Rose wanders off to the piano.
Anthony stands up carefully. “Sorry —”
“Here, dear,” says Lily, “sit down and have a cuppa tea till I tell you about your mother.”
THE END
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