They were a team, Vanda said. There were three of them, Duncan, Vanda and Freda, plus Adele, who “worked for the company” and was responsible for their travel and accommodation, clutching her Bradshaw’s in one hand and with the other lugging a suitcase full of “the Knits,” as she called them (indisputably a capital letter), from one smoky third-class train carriage to the next.
