text:  It's so fun to be reading this now because I completely forgot about this entire section of the book. So I'm sort of delighted to be rediscovering it. Thank you. Rachel spun around. Sitting in the armchair in front of the fireplace was Nick's grandmother, swaddled in an embroidered cashmere shawl, being poured a cup of tea, one of her Thai ladies' maids. "'Ah, Ma, what are you doing here?' Nick asked in astonishment."