As soon as she got home Jane went upstairs to her bedroom, opened the wardrobe, and looked for something to wear for dinner at the Fantail. She selected four different dresses, held them up in front of the mirror then placed them carefully on the bed before deciding which one to wear. She picked up the red, short-sleeved boat-neck dress and tried it on. Being made of wool, she knew it would keep her warm on a cold evening. She looked in the mirror again and liked how the bust darts and banded waist accentuated her figure. She removed her hair tie, shook her head, then fluffed her hair so it hung over her shoulders. ‘That’ll do nicely,’ she said to herself. She decided some black tights, black court shoes and a knee-length black velvet coat would go well with the dress.

As she hung it to one side in the wardrobe, Jane noticed her tracksuit and thought about her conversation with Father Chris about how he liked to run three or four times a week or go to the Walnuts Leisure Centre. There’s no time like the present, she thought to herself and decided to go for a run.

Having changed into her tracksuit and trainers, Jane realised she didn’t know Chislehurst, or the surrounding area very well, and planned out a triangular route using her A-Z street map book. She estimated it would be about three miles and wrote it down on a piece of paper which she put in her tracksuit pocket. She did some stretches and then set off.

As she ran along the pavement, Jane started thinking about Nick Durham. It crossed her mind he could be in cahoots with his father and Lee Holland, and the invitation to dinner was a ploy to get information out of her. They could each be playing the same game. At his office he’d seemed relaxed, though understandably concerned about his father’s heart condition and the building work having to stop. And he’d readily accepted she had further inquiries to make, even offering to let her look through the company files – which suggested he had nothing to hide.

As she trudged up a steep road, Jane also realised it was irrational to think Nick could have been involved in the nun’s murder since he’d have been a teenager at the time, and his father had yet to purchase the convent. It made her wonder if Thomas Durham had lied to his son when he said his solicitor told him everything had been deconsecrated before the sale of the convent. But if it was true, then why were Thomas Durham and Lee Holland so worried about the discovery of the coffin? If they’d been involved in the nun’s murder, it seemed bizarre that they would bury the coffin on land they knew might be dug up in the future.