The weekend was fast approaching and I still hadn' t called the committee back to make them aware that I did not want to do a speech on the late Mr Madden . That meant that I would have to say something at the event come tomorrow evening . I steered clear of Nicholas since that day in his office and , it seemed to me , that he was doing the same . Good , I thought , nothing good ever came out from the two of us being in the same space .
The committee should have implored Nicholas to do it . To give the speech for his own father . It was laughable that even the committee was afraid of pushing him to do what he didn' t want to do . It did not make any sense to get any one other than the only present child of the man to speak in his honour and , if not him , than some other next of kin or di
