What happens in the yard happens in front of about forty people and four clerks and it takes eleven minutes, and both of us countersign afterwards without reading.

RabThat is done. That is filed. That is nine places at least and I do not want to talk about it in the yard.

TamsinThen do not. You have until Friday.

The yard empties slowly. Rab walks back to his room with the bag on his shoulder and the regulations sticking out of it and does not look at anybody.