 When the time had come to go back to the minibus to leave the church and bring them back to the hotel, he'd considered asking her if he could sit next to her, but she was in the front. And in the end, he hadn't been confident that he could fit into the narrow seat at her side without most of his body hanging out over the aisle, which would have meant that he'd been blocking it when the young German family and the Italian newlyweds boarded the bus and wanted to get by. So he'd moved past her, sat down near the back,