Chapter 25

“I will look in on her if you like,” Robert said. He appeared to be looking at him oddly.

Milo nodded. “I would appreciate it if you would do that and let me know how she fares.”

Robert was looking at him oddly again.

“What?” he said.

“Nothing. How about your family? Where do they live?”

“I have no family.” Milo toyed with a sandwich. “My father died when I was a boy, my mother remarried and went to live abroad when I was ten. She appointed me a guardian who dumped me here when I was one and twenty.” He put the sandwich in his mouth and chewed. “Now I live alone and that’s how I like it.”

They ate in silence for a while until Milo was full. He laid his napkin on his plate, and Robert did the same.

“Let’s go outside. It’s too beautiful to be indoors,” Robert said.

Milo swallowed and nodded.

Robert nodded and got up. “Back in a moment.”

Milo stared as he left the room and came back with the dreaded chair. He placed it beside Milo and applied the brake. “There you go. Hop in.”