He rang Mr Osei's secretary on the eleventh of July.
He did not tell her. He had a question — a specific one, about what happens if the end-of-treatment scan shows something, and how quickly, and what the next line actually is — and he had been carrying it since June and had decided that he was not going to put it in front of Talia, because putting it in front of Talia would mean she would carry it too.