Her face was etched with that deep grief that you see masking the expression of a widow in the first few days of shock after the death of her husband.
She had sat rather uncomfortably through Mass. She was Church of England, she said, but her late husband was a non-observant Catholic. His body was to be reclaimed for the Catholic Church in order to complete the funeral rites. And so she had come to Mass.
One or two people courteously introduced themselves, there were offers of prayer of course, as well as an invitation to come back to Mass after the funeral if she would care to. But why would she? She was C of E.
