In which I find myself slipping quietly through slumbering watchers and sorrowful relatives, as the solemnity of a funeral unfolds with all its mournful ceremonies and a sly undertaker’s deftness. There’s trouble brewing in the air when certain shifty characters grow uneasy about strange goings-on, and I’m caught in the middle, pondering the tangled consequences of meddling in affairs too big and tangled for a humble lad like me.