"One more thing before you go. Not the documentary. The Spider-Man people."
"Yeah."
"They rang again this morning. They want a third scene."
"Tell them yes."
"Nine hours of your time in August instead of six. They will not tell us what the third scene is yet."
"Tell them yes."
She closed the tablet. Tomás and Ruth started packing the cameras. Ben unplugged the laptop from the projector. Elena paused at the door with her hand on the frame.
"Whatever happens between now and the end of May, the four hours is already there. The matches are the loud part. The film is the quiet part. We already have the quiet part."
She went out.
I sat in the screening room for another five minutes. Then I drove home.
[Dulwich. 18:48 BST.]
She had been to the shops.
