The Uninvited

A classic distancing technique. You haveto agree: on the social observation front, itdoesn’t get much more dynamic than this.’I was thinking that too. But it doesn’tmake us friends.I say, ‘There’s another factor in all this.Which might have a bearing.’ When I tellher about Chen’s soy habit, andSvensson’s bottle of seawater, and Farooqcrumbling a block of salt from adesalination plant into a plastic waterbottle, and de Vries licking his arm, sheputs down her drink and she sits very still.‘Have you told anyone else about this?’she asks when I have finished.‘No. It’s only recently I made theconnection.’ And it’s my investigation.Not yours.‘Pyjama Girl has a salt craving. Naomi