Pakhet stands up and goes to her bookshelf—the Inspector is now primed to see this object as a signifier of academic authority and therefore also a tool for the architectural intimidation of Pakhet’s more boisterous students—and retrieves a single slim volume from which the dust jacket has been removed. Her footsteps are heavy but quite silent. "Let’s dispense with the idea that I don’t know whose interview we’re talking about, shall we?"