And she doesn’t understand why he doesn’t want to put out his medal like a trophy. And he can’t tell her that he liberated Europe with a spade.

But there are people too he says, everywhere there are people and I think it is easier to hold hands with people than it is with angels, yes?

Every step of the road was just as she’d dreamt it all the time she’d been away. Every step took her further away from the smoke and the noise and the loneliness and fear of...