"Serge and Ruth broke up last year, she'd been sleeping with another. He took it pretty hard, he blamed her a little and then himself a lot, then something clicked and he kind of stopped showing what he was feeling. He used to put the man in mansuetude, quite the gentleman really, now he's just alone, and ruthless, unable to more forward."Bianca sighed before emptying the rest of her glass of wine. Sarah had to stop herself from asking "Serging forward?", it wasn't really something you made a joke about.