Downstream

another.’
The river shaped Daniel’s
life and he met his future wife
thanks to the Thames. One
day he was with a friend
who’d invited ‘a lovely
redhead named Pat. . . to join
us for a day’s sailing at
Greenwich’. But as Pat was
about to ‘step into the dinghy
to take her ashore she slipped
and found herself waist-deep
in the water. I gallantly fished
her out . . . Forty-six years,