[Alfie's fingers curl, then uncurl - and then he holds out a hand to Royce.]
Do you remember the day you brought me to the beach in the evening?
[They've gone to the beach in the evening plenty of times, but he's thinking of one time in particular - not a time when they'd just decided to go together, but a time when Royce had taken him. He'd been melancholy and broody and generally down in the dumps, and Royce had done it to calm him and do something nice for him.]
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Do you remember the day you brought me to the beach in the evening?
[They've gone to the beach in the evening plenty of times, but he's thinking of one time in particular - not a time when they'd just decided to go together, but a time when Royce had taken him. He'd been melancholy and broody and generally down in the dumps, and Royce had done it to calm him and do something nice for him.]