Summary

June (the following year). Dan has his picture taken in a photography session conducted by Anna. Conversation suggests that the session is for the cover of a book that Dan has written based on the experiences of Alice who, conversation further reveals, has been Dan’s partner for about a year. Conversation also reveals that Anna thinks a better title for the book would be “The Aquarium”, with Dan’s response suggesting that a particular “dirty bit” takes place in an aquarium.

When Dan describes Anna as “beautiful”, she says she’s not. Dan also describes Alice as “completely loveable and completely unleaveable”. Anna reveals that she was up until four in the morning reading Dan’s book; and that she makes her career taking portraits of strangers; and that she likes finding subjects for her photographs in aquariums, museums, and other public places...