Kate Legge

doing this to the family and doing it to the father.

But it's a history of hearsay.

So because there's no records, all I was able to rely on was the... The story you got, right?

Yeah, it was a story I got.

And also interviewing Colin's sister-in-law who married Colin's brother.

This is where we need the whiteboard.

And she remembered going to the house and she remembered the story and she knew that that's what the story was.

So Colin, your father-in-law, left home at 14 after his father beat him up for saying mum's having an affair.

What happened after he left?

Did Colin's parents stay together?

They stayed together growing closer apart, that wonderful line from A.D.

Hope.

Closer apart.

Closer apart and, you know, they had grandchildren and it was never mentioned, you know, social protocol just fenced off rugged emotional terrain and no one revisited it, no one told it.

And what about the border?

What happened to him?

Well, he went to the war and was killed.

And so in a sense, they were able to repair that.

There was no threat of the affair being resuscitated.

And whether or not she had other affairs, of course, Colin wasn't there to announce them.