‘Are you alright Ted? I’ve brought you a cup of tea’.

Gelsthorpe sat upright with a start.

‘Don’t worry – we’re alone. He’s gone to work already and won’t be back until late. We’ll have sorted something out by then. We have to stick together – people like you and me!’

‘Are you sure I am safe here?’

‘You are well and truly safe. I will make sure of it’. 

Gelsthorpe relaxed and took the proffered cup. Best bone china, he noticed.

‘I’m not used to this treatment’.

It was a long time since the Holme Hill cricket club groundsman had been brought tea in bed. Gelsthorpe remembered how it had been the other way round for the last years before his...

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