She emailed her solicitor that moment, standing right there, tapping into her phone: telling him she would be in the following morning, first thing, to make an important change to her will.

The next morning – which was Monday – at around 8.20 a.m., while Sebastian was being asked, on the Today programme, by the by, whether the tutor employed to teach his daughter had the right to work in this country: and of course he said, Yes, well, by taught I don’t mean a formal system of education, my daughter goes to Ayrness High School, but yes, of course naturally Mrs, er, the woman has the right to teach my daughter – which was an unfortunate claim because, actually, this turned out to be very much a matter for debate, Mariam’s spouse visa depending on her staying at the side of her unfaithful husband, and giving her no right whatsoever to work in Britain once she’d divorced him (which she hadn’t yet, not technically, only semi-Islamically); and thus by the time Sebastian’s office had put out a statement in the afternoon, clarifying that in fact the Pakistani woman wasn’t his daughter’s tutor, the Daily Mail had already discovered that he was wrong about the rights he had quoted her as having, while the Sun, upon its arrival in the islands, learnt that Mariam always wore a headscarf, and prayed many times daily; and later that day, Sebastian, while being grilled yet again, revealed that Mariam had been his wife’s patient; after which, the Daily Mail, in Hampstead, discovered, without too much difficulty, that she’d visited the sexual health clinic there; and soon right-wing chatter on the internet was calling Sebastian slapdash, and Zoe illegitimate, and Mariam syphilitic; while also pointing out that, thanks to the Home Secretary’s new minimum income requirement, in the future, penniless immigrants like Mariam Maher would be kept out of the country – Eva drove into Ayrness.