I had stood in front of the hall speaking seriously, listening earnestly and all of the time the mark was there.
And I wondered if they had seen it and if they had had it made a difference that sign of hurry reaching back to click the front door shut and rushing out focused on something else.
That mark of humanity of being ordinary and not different at all sharing the same life.
And I wondered if that mark was more important than all I had carefully prepared and said.
Jane Olive has recently stopped being a teacher of Religious Studies, Philosophy and English.