Celia and Robert Kilroy Silk

 

If there was one person that Celia detested it was Robert Kilroy Silk.

He had been her tutor at Liverpool University and it had annoyed her that he had proceeded to chain smoke Capstan Full Strength or some other noxious weed throughout all of the tutorials she attended. As she died of a secondary lung cancer and these tutorials were the only time she was ever in a seriously smokey atmosphere, I do wonder if there is any connection. I doubt it, but it would be nice to blame someone for her death.

She only ever saw him once after she left Liverpool and that was at Newmarket races. I urged her to go and say hello, but she didn't. She felt he was too obnoxious to bother to be worthy of a greeting.