The sight of a pleasant senior couple in the waiting room was reassuring; less so was the black eye sported by the husband. Where, I wondered, could that have come from? Surely not from the spry septuagenarian at his side? Which just goes to show how wrong first impressions can be. The black eye had indeed been administered by his wife in a desperate attempt to prevent him from strangling her in bed. This was not what one would expect from a perfect Darby and Joan couple...
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