John Keane has left Urmson on a secondment to Urmston University organised by his academic manager, Montague Beamer. He has met the University Vice-Chancellor Wendy Lockinge who seems interested in his earlier meeting with the mysterious old man.
At breakfast one day, he meets the celebrity academic Tony Scrivener, the glamorous student Hudson Baye, and briefly, the student activist Dando LlewelynÂ
