The tide is at eleven and the house is on the quay and the last night of October is in six days and there is not going to be another drawing.

MilaIt came up my name. That is the whole of it. The town has been doing this for eighty-seven years and this year the drum gave them a Vance.

MalfoidYour mother stood at the back of that hall and shook because she knew whose name was in the drum. Somebody has been putting your name in it.

MioneNot somebody. The deed names a family as the beneficiaries of the harbour dues. The Vances have been paid by this harbour since 1911.