The Uninvited

the smaller and more delicate features ofhis face. ‘If Jonas had a problem withcoffee futures, or anything else, why didn’the tell me?’‘He may not have known how toarticulate it.’He shrugs. ‘Well he certainly wasn’thimself. To commit sabotage on this scale,and for absolutely no reason, after all thehard work he has done, and then try to killhimself . . .’ He trails off, as thoughexhausted, and inspects his hands. I thinkagain of Sunny Chen’s acte manqué. Asingle oddity is a one-off. Two is thebeginning of a Venn. ‘He wouldn’t talk tome after he’d done it. He was avoidingme. I didn’t know what was happening atthat point, of course. But when it came out,I think he felt ashamed. Or at least very