She took it as if it were quite normal that he'd brought it.
Contemporary translators and commentators often present the massacre of these women as if it were quite ordinary, and entirely justified.
She's achieved a sudden saintliness – as if it were quite forgotten, the sheer unremitting relentlessness of her, that we see on television interviews.
"It became fashionable, and corporations woke up to the fact that, if they were going to be global, this had to be controlled, and the consequences of not controlling it were quite serious," Shaughnessy told me recently.
"Oh, that's Wilhelm Furtwängler's piano," he says, casually, as if it were quite normal to have a piano that once belonged to the inspirational German conductor, who died in 1954.
He was almost an invisible man for long periods at Arsenal, so regularly was he unavailable, and, though his form last season unquestionably established him as one of the most effective all-round strikers in the Premier League, the fact remains that it was just the one season and none of those that preceded it were quite as fluent or impressive.
