After I wrote: <This is Avon, the one who considered spacing the London prisoners for his own benefit>

Marian repled: <To be fair - and if this makes me an Avon apologist then I can live with that :-) - we don't *know* that Avon considered spacing the London prisoners. True to character, he doesn't deny Blake's accusation, but that's no proof that he ever seriously considered it.>

True, I should have put an IMO in there, since this *is* my interpretation. *I*MO <g> he thought about the possibility, at least seriously enough to work out about the log book and then work his way through to the inherent problems, but had decided against it, probably fairly quickly (said problems stand out rather largely, but if he'd rejected the idea out of hand his thinking wouldn't have got that far).

Blake had also thought about whether Avon would, and had quickly decided that left to himself, Avon *would* decide against it, for the same reasons (as he did).

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