“When she returned to the office, she found that Mr Jasper Cohen had gone abruptly on holiday. His son had been killed in Spain – he had been shot, near Madrid, rather more than a year before; a friend of his had written, on returning safe to England, to tell his father so.”

“When she returned to the office, she found that Mr Jasper Cohen had gone abruptly on holiday. His son had been killed in Spain – he had been shot, near Madrid, rather more than a year before; a friend of his had written, on returning safe to England, to tell his father so.”

— Doris Lessing