Not in person but a recording, anyway M'Clare is on Earth surrounded
by exam papers.
I sit back and try to think, honestly, if that crack-brained notion I
wrote out last night were going to be tried in dead earnest, would I
take a hand in it?
The trouble is, hearing M'Clare's voice has convinced me it is a Test,
I don't know whether it is testing my courage or my prudence in fact I
might as well toss for it.
Heads I am crazy, Tails a defaulter; Tails is what it is.