“That panic face would have got you out alive”

WE’RE WATCHING Titanic at home.

Towards the end of the film, when mass drowning is imminent, I say, unthinkingly, “God knows how I’d react in that situation…” but swallow the end of my sentence uncertainly when my daughters and husband turn their heads round like three perfectly synchronised door-knobs, to stare at me.

“You’re joking, right?” my husband says.