It happened on the fifteenth of May, on the gallery, at about one in the morning, and there was no build-up at all, which is the only reason it happened.
She had been reading out a lease. That was the entire romance of it: Selena Hart was reading out the schedule of a lease of the Alderwick mill dated 1911 in a flat voice, and she got to a clause about water rights and stopped, and said, "Oh — hang on, that's the Weir. That's the fence. They were arguing about who paid for the fence in 1911," and looked up.