My heart is beating so hard I’m surprised he can’t hear it. I shake my head. ‘Nothing to tell.’ I need to sort this. He knows something. Or at least suspects. He does, I’m sure of it. I need to do something. Need to help Lola.

‘Actually, there is something,’ I gabble, remembering the clothes Lola left for me, and her reasons for it. Wow. She really was planning ahead – thinking of everything.

I take a deep breath. ‘I’ve got some of Lola’s clothes. Jumpers. A few scarves. Sometimes when I miss her, I wear them. It makes me feel like she’s still close. They smell of her.’

Tears start to fall – I’m terrified and I don’t know what to do – but Stuart thankfully interprets my reaction as grief. His expression changes to one of sympathy and he pushes a box of tissues towards me. I take one and blow my nose.

‘That’s entirely understandable,’ he says. ‘But it doesn’t explain why you were in Rick’s room.’

He doesn’t believe me. I can tell. He knows Lola is alive. He suspects that she killed Rick. He’s waiting for me to tell him. It’s all going to be over. ‘He’s a mate,’ I mutter hoarsely. ‘I wanted to talk. About Lola.’

Stuart nods again, but I can see in his expression that he knows I’m lying. Maybe he thinks I swing both ways as Rick was rumoured to do and that we were lovers. But more likely, he knows that I’m covering up for Lola. What the fuck are we going to do? However I’ve fudged it just now, what it boils down to is that he’s got evidence that someone related to me not only killed Rick, but, in all likelihood, must be on this ship. He doesn’t believe my excuse about the clothes, I can tell. It’s only a matter of time until Lola gets found out, I know it is. I think Stuart already knows. I rub my forehead. Shit, shit, shit.

‘Antonio, I hope you don’t mind me saying this,’ Stuart continues, ‘but while initially I thought you were doing OK, I don’t think you’re coping with Lola’s … disappearance very well. Not only from our conversation today, but from having seen you around the ship over the last couple of weeks – you seem to be finding things increasingly difficult. I’d like you to consider taking some anti-anxiety medication. I think it may help you. You don’t have to take them for long, they’re not addictive and, for most people, don’t have side effects.’