The news from Mr Sandal turned Bee’s world upside-down, After the telephone call she sat for a long time thinking, wondering, and then went to look for photographs of Patrick. She seemed to have kept nothing at all; some peple seem to keep photographs for years and years, but Bee was not one of them. She went to the room that Patrick and Simon had once shared, but she knew very well that nothing of Patrick remained there. Some months after Patrick’s death she had found Simon making a fire in the garden. Burning on the fire were Patrick’s toys, his schoolbooks, even the silly wooden horse that had hung at the end of his bed. Simon had been very angry when he noticed her watching him.