“I knew you would.”
There was something unusual about his calmness.
Many patients with serious illnesses were frightened, angry, or overwhelmed.
Thomas seemed peaceful.
He carried himself like someone who had been waiting a very long time for one final thing to happen.
One morning, he asked me a careful question.
“Do you have any family nearby, Nancy? Anyone helping you?”
“Only a distant cousin named Raymond. He has been calling more often since I moved back.”
For one brief moment, Thomas’s expression changed.
His jaw tightened.
Then he relaxed and quickly changed the subject.
I did not understand why at the time.
