Nevis is on the sofa on the Halcyon Days, considering how she might motivate herself to return to her coursework. Her essay on oceanic population has been in for a couple of days now but she has yet to settle to anything else. Luke’s revelation has left her feeling restless and queasy the way food poisoning can do. If the visit of the older man to their flat had been innocent then surely Satnam would have mentioned it? Who was he and what was he doing? A dark car seems to rule out Mark Ratner, whose own vehicle is silver, though it’s also possible that Luke misremembered the colour of the car he saw, or even that Ratner could have been driving some other car, his wife’s perhaps? She imagines it wouldn’t be hard to find out where he lives and pay him a visit, check to see if there is a dark coloured car on the drive or parked outside, even confront the man himself? He would deny any affair, she was pretty sure of that, and he might report her to the Dean. But perhaps that would be worth it?