He put himself in the initial group and picked his fellow training partners with precision; Anne and David were a couple and in their late-fifties, so after their meal he expected them to prefer their own company and make fairly swift tracks back to their hotel room. Ken the Accounts Director lived only a couple of miles from the conference hall, and as an assiduous bean-counter it made way more sense financially and logistically for him to return to the comfort of his own bed for the evening, rather than stay over at the hotel. Mark hadn’t even booked a room for him. Then there was Kieran and Andrew from I.T., archetypal computer nerds and suspected of gaydom by everyone in the company. Their nonexistent relationship was the talk of the office and seemingly every employee there was on a m
