I sit down on the bed and do nothing for a while, on purpose, because I have not done nothing on purpose in two years and I want to know whether I still can.

RabWhat are you doing?

TamsinNothing. There is no answer to that question in this room and it is the best thing about the room.

The blind is down. The floodlights hum. Somewhere under us four hundred people are asleep in rooms with no blinds and the clerks are not asleep and there is nothing any of us can do about that tonight.