The Uninvited

pull of a fifteen-kilogram rucksack. Thisgives me pause for thought. For a man ofmy size, fifteen kilograms is bearable. Ionce loved Kaitlin. But Freddy’s love forher is active and current. So, I mustpresume, is Stephanie’s. Each, in theirown way, is an unknown quantity: Freddybecause his reality is inexplicably‘suspended’, and Stephanie because Idon’t know her well enough to be able topredict her reaction – though to judge fromElisabeth Kübler-Ross’s description ofthe grief cycle in her seminal work OnDeath and Dying, she is likely to gothrough a process similar to that of abereavement, but with additionalcomplexities stemming from the fact thatKaitlin is not actually dead. This processwill doubtless involve the classic phases