A dark-adapted eye (dans les livres #186)

In these circumstances alone one knows when someone is going to die. All other deaths can be predicted, conjectured, even anticipated with some certainty, but not to the hour, the minute, with no room for hope. Vera would die at eight o’clock and that was that.

Ruth Rendell, † le 2 mai 2015. 

[Musset, aussi, Calaferte, Guimard, et la Saint-Boris clic-clic.]