there had been no time to consider such things , however , not when her health , perhaps her very life , had been in jeopardy ; a knife between the shoulder blades is the cowardly mans way of saying go , you done me wrong , and she could picture herself in his saffron coloured tub with the modest plastic curtain pulled across , lathering her groin as in he came , shivering to see the condensation on the tiles and considerately tossing her the electric fire .