Not immediately before, where I love to say things like “Oh, it’s you” after opening the door to an unseen visitor, or better still, “What do you want?” so much as shortly before, usually during the last time I am seen alive in public. Anxiously, after an unexpected eruption at a social gathering:
“I’ve just received the most unusual telegram. You would never credit it, but it seems my brother… Ah, but is that the time? I must tend to my bee garden.”
“I’ve just received the most unusual telegram. You would never credit it, but it seems my brother… Ah, but is that the time? I must tend to my bee garden.”