Sunday morning Yarrow considered going to church. He was not particularly religious despite the fact that his father, now retired, had been a missionary in Peshawar in what was formally North-West India but now Pakistan and where Yarrow had been born, but he felt the need for some quiet contemplation.
However, in the end he decided to clean and polish his car, the creamy white 2.5 litre 1952 Riley BME. He washed the bodywork down with warm soapy water, wiped and sluiced away the suds and then waxed and polished the paintwork until it gleamed in the wan morning sunlight, working up a healthy sweat as he did so.
Next he polished the chrome-work, the bumpers, wheel hubs, door handles, headlights and side lights with Simoniz Metal Polish before sweeping the interior carpets, wiping down the
