Emma Morley got up early on 15th July. Emma now lived in a rented flat in Leytonstone. It was quite near Cromwell Road Comprehensive School, where she taught English and Drama. She had moved to the flat when she started teaching at the school, in the autumn of the year before. Ian Whitehead spent much of his time at the flat too. Emma thought she was probably in love with Ian. 'I am in love with him, aren't I? ' she asked herself daily. And every day she told herself that she was in love with him - yes, of course she was in love with him. And her parents liked him very much, especially her mother. That was important to her. 'It's good when people's partners and mothers get on well,' she thought. But Ian did take up a lot of space in the little flat.