Weston

He wrote the plan on Thursday night at the table in his own flat, on the back of an envelope, with the chewed biro, because that was how he had always written them first.

Sat 20. Weston. Depart 12:30. On plot 14:00. Off plot 15:00. Local car in the road from 10:00. Mrs M told at 10:00, by phone, visitors for tea, no names.

Then the cars.

He wrote Car 1: Rashid (drv), Pryor, principal, and looked at it.

It was the ordinary way. It was the way he would have written it for anybody: the senior officer in the principal’s car, in the front, where he could see the road and the mirror at once. It kept every term she had given him. Rashid would be at the wheel the whole way; there would never be a moment when he was alone with her in a car. And it…