They are parents who face the loss ofa child, spouses who carry an emptiness that cannot be filled, children who know sorrow that defies comprehension.
After so many months in which his primary human contact had been an occasional phone call or brief conversations with an inmate down the tier, shouted through steel doors at the top of their lungs, he found himself unable to carry on a face-to-face conversation.
One way or another, next week will tell us a lot about the willingness of European retail depositors to keep calm and carry on in the faceof worrying developments.