Wednesday, nine at night, and the yard is walled, floodlit and never empty, and tonight it is fuller than I have ever seen it because somebody has told somebody that something is going to happen.

RabThey are all going to watch.

TamsinGood. That is the entire point. If they were not watching there would be nothing to file.

He takes the regulations out of the bag and holds them against his chest like a man holding a passport at a border.