Di Stephano's wife, Louisa, had left him six months earlier for a classics postgraduate. But it seems that the Professor and his ex-wife hadn't bothered to start divorce proceedings and even kept their season tickets to the opera.
Good seats are harder to come by than faithful spouses.
The grad student, Jason Craig, had come to Berkeley with a reputation, none of it acquired in academic pursuits. He was, however, a diabetic. Like everyone else, I had read The New Yorker article about the discovery of K5, the tomb of Ramses and his sons. It had intrigued me for a week, but there was nothing in it I would kill for. Donald Crispin, professor emeritus in Comparative Languages, seemed to know everything worth knowing with regard to academic intrigues.