The Man I was seven. Mum was always late. I was the last girl picked up from school most days. There was a tree by the school fence where I used to wait. I would walk around it seven times in one direction. Then I would walk around it seven times in the other. Seven was my age. Seven was a magic age. One day a man came up to me. I didn’t know what to do. Mrs Gray was walking up the street. Mrs Gray was the mother of my friend, Mandy. Mrs Gray was a Commissioner of Guides.…