COLLINS LEANED ON LOGAN for support as the two of them made their way slowly back to base camp. The morphine shot Marsh had given him had made him woozy without seeming to take away much of the pain. Collins was glad to be out of the drama unfolding at the tunnel entrance, where they had left Marsh, the recovery team members, Surtees and the now-conscious Tedeschi. Marsh's face had indicated he found Surtees' sobbing over Tedeschi's prone body as embarrassing as Collins did.
“So Surtees and Tedeschi were—” Logan asked
“Having an affair, yes, as far as I could tell. He wanted her to leave her husband, but she wouldn't, because she'd lose her funding, be out of a job or whatever.”
“Could her husband do that?”
“Don't know. I suppose so. He's a university dean, so—”
“So Tedeschi went off.
