She was in front of Mr Justice Ferris again in the October, eighteen months after Hallett, on a three-day application, and Nate was not on it, and it was the first time she had been in that court on her own.
He was exactly the same. He was seventy-three now and had a slightly worse cough and he sat with his chin on his hand and looked at a point four feet above her head with the manner of a man being shown holiday photographs, and did not ask her one single question for two entire days.