C26 TWENTY SIX

Angels are Bright

ROSE

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell;

Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,

Yet grace must still look so.

— William Shakespeare, Macbeth

IT HADN'T BEEN easy getting away alone, but in the end I convinced Derek to let me go, that I could handle myself. As I waited in the church garden, the angels looking sadder than they had last time