Whether it makes you a father is between you and two children and it is going to take you about fifteen years to find out.”

Part Twenty-One: The First Night

I have gone a long way round the thing everybody actually wants to know, which is what it was like, and the reason I have gone a long way round is that I do not come out of it well.

We left that building at about half past one in the afternoon.

And then there were nine hours of that day left and I had absolutely no idea what to do with them, and I want to record what I actually did, because it is the most revealing thing about the man who walked out of that lobby.

I put them in a hotel.