He thought about the previous anniversary and he remembered a strange thing. A few days after 15th July last years, he’d re received a kind letter from Ian Whitehead. ‘When Emma left me, I hated you,’ he had written. ‘I wanted to die. But after a few years I met someone else and my life changed. And now I’m happy again. We have three children. I know how you must feel without Emma, Dexter. And I know that she loved you very, very must. I used to think that you weren’t good enough for her. But none of us was good enough for Emma. And we have to go on for her. Please take care of yourself.’