Thursday night Rab comes up to the top corridor and stands outside my door with his bag and his questions and does not knock for forty seconds.

RabIf I come in there, it does not count. Nothing that happens behind a blind can be filed. I would be giving a night away for free.

TamsinYes.

RabI have spent six days learning how to make myself count, and the first thing I want to do with it is spend a night not counting.

He comes in. The blind is already down.