"I opened the telegram and said, 'He's dead -' and as I looked up into Graham Mill's gaze I saw that he knew who, before I could say. He had met Max, my first husband, several times, and of course he had heard all about him, he had helped me get to see him when he was in prison. 'How?' he said, in his flat professional voice, putting out his hand for the telegram, but I said, 'Killed himself!' - and only then let him have it."Nadine Gordimer, The Late Bourgeois World (1966) (London: Penguin, 1982), 7.
What an opening paragraph...
