“Whatsat?”

“You said you were going to fix him.”

“Yeah. So he’d stay fixed.”

“You certainty did.”

“Too late now,” Flane said gloomily.

Simon looked at him over his glass with a slight frown.

“What d’you mean — too late?”

“Too late to fix him. He’s been fixed.”

“But you did it, didn’t you?”

Flane steadied himself, and a smudgily truculent rigidity came over his face.