At this most significant of moments, preparing for bed in their jointly leased apartment on the seventh floor of the handsome new glass-and-poured-concrete Greenwood Towers, after a year, or has it been more, of passion, and indecision, and speculation, and hesitation, and - much, much more: the intricacies of romantic love resist transcription - at this most delicate and intimate of moments Molly Marks, to her distress, finds herself in the awkward position of having caught her lover Jonathan McEwan in a lie.