wormer to try. If you'd just open the case, or
             let me open it, you'd see," Moira said.
             "We can't touch it; it's your property. And you're a foreign national
             and have not been charged. But the superintendent will be here soon, and
             he'll sort it all out," the Gard had told her.
             The main character, Moira, is still in the holding room. A new
             character has entered, a Gard,' or Irish policeman. He was there all the
             time, but while he was occupied looking at the customs agent's notes, Moira
             had time to think the thoughts in the first scene. When the Gard speaks,
             it reveals what the problem will be. He is sitting on another hard chair
             across a Formica-topped table from Moira. There is nothing on the table
             except the few papers he has been reading and Moira's passport
             ...