'I'm pleased to hear it,' said the lawyer. 'But what happens outside the factory? Do you really put these very dangerous chemicals into the river?'
'Yes, we do,'said John. There was a noise in the room. Someone near Christine shouted something angrily, and a policewoman told him to quiet. John went on. 'Of course we put these chemicals in the river, but we don't put a lot in. Only two or three hundred litres every day. That's not much. And we cheek the river all the time three times every day. There are usually only two parts per million, or less, in the water near the factory, and there is much less downstream. That's not dangerous.'
'Not dangerous, Mr Duncan?' said the lawyer slowly.
'Are you sure?'
'Yes, I am,' John said. He looked up, at the hundreds of eyes watching him. David Wilson's eyes, Christine's eyes, Simon's.