The message came in while Dai was still scraping the frost off the van.

Hi, it’s Jack Portmant. We met at Lord Tonminter’s last night, and I thought we had a real spark. I’m off to a conference in Geneva for the weekend. Do you fancy coming along? X

Dai hadn’t been at Lord Tonminter’s last night. He was at Screwfix, then he went to the Dog and Butcher for a swifty.