Must have been […] devastating when Kenny was killed. But I want you to know that you can trust me. I understand you. I empathize.

The hours of his illness were disjointed and confusing as he drifted in and out of consciousness.

[…]the last time I'd seen them in Australia I felt an aching need to feed her a sandwich but I saw her on Spicks & Specks the other week and the Heathrow Injection has done her good.

It is odd how easily the common-places of morality or of sentiment glide off in conversation. Well, they are exceedingly helpful, and so Lord Avonleigh found them.