Rules you out, then, old chum, Mayo thought, guessing there wasn’t much humour there, macabre or otherwise. He studied the other man, and wondered. He saw distaste, dislike, and looked for fear, but didn’t find it. He said, ‘How exactly did this new entrance concern the Bursar?’
Riach seemed to relax a little. ‘We don’t have strictly defined limits in so far as duties go. Geoffrey Conyngham is school Secretary and Chief Administrator, and he’d agreed to let Charles deal with the negotiations for buying the property in order to resite the main entrance to the school on Kelsey Road. If you’ll bear with me a moment, I’ll show you.’ He crossed to a cupboard and took out a large, rolled-up plan of the school grounds which he spread out across his desk, weighting it at the top corners with a pa
