TamsinIt would have to be counted as the gravest thing that has ever happened in that yard, and it would have to be filed honestly, and both of us would have to sign it.

DeaconI know.

TamsinAnd you understand that a report about you being seen with me goes into a box that a clerk carries across a bridge, and that in eleven years nobody has done this and nobody knows what the Tower will do with it.

DeaconI have understood that for a month. I was waiting to find somebody who would not flinch at it.

He stops hitting the bag. It is the first time in an hour that he has been still.