1. - ‘That’s impossible,’ says Kuldesh Sharma, pushing eighty, handsomely bald, and wearing a lilac suit and a white silk shirt unbuttoned to a point beyond the confidence of any ordinary man.
- ‘
, certainly,’ says Stephen. ‘But not impossible. I saw them with my own eyes.
2. ‘If we could
you for just one moment?’ says Elizabeth.
3. - ‘And then what?’ - ‘And then we
it
, Joyce,’ says Elizabeth. ‘As we always do.’
4. ‘Just wanted to check there was
?’ Fiona gives a warm laugh. She is leaning around the door, not troubling the threshold. Clearly not planning to stay. ‘Before I head back out.’
5. Stephen is nodding, and looking between his pieces and Bogdan’s, looking for
that aren’t there.
6. - ‘I’ve told you enough to be getting on with,’ says Jack. ‘You buggers can work it out.’
- ‘Your
has been admirable,’ says Viktor.
7. Elizabeth sees Joyce take a quick look into her own bag, and, seeing the gun Elizabeth recently slipped into it, shakes her head and gives her friend a
.
