WHILE THEY WAITED FOR Sonia Fox, the Head of English, to take her turn in the chair, they took the opportunity to have a quick discussion of the case.
‘What do you think Dafyd?’
‘I think this case rather hinges on what Ms Scott was like, don’t you?’
‘That’s what I like—a man who turns my questions back on me. All right, Daff, before you go off on one, as it happens, I agree with you. We’ve got the Head’s version, who has Laura Scott as a passionate defender of lost Causes.’
‘He didn’t say they were lost.’
‘No. But Causes with a capital “C” usually are lost, otherwise they wouldn’t be Causes, would they—Ban the Bomb, Save the Whale, Nuclear Deterrent, Greenpeace? Then we have Westlake and his inviting Laura Scott. The sort of young woman capable of bringing schoolboys like young Ricky
