Not long after he would have got out of school

I wondered whether it was because he was one of those large, soft-faced kids with blond hair, glasses and a voice still a child’s that when I overheard him say, ‘so he followed them, he led them away’, I knew without a doubt that the boy was retelling the story of a film, a game or a book, and not his observations about the Bank of Queensland robbery that had occurred only metres from where he was now walking but on the previous day, not long after he would have got out of school.