Conflict

"Pale, wild-eyed, the Director glared about him in an agony of bewildered humiliation." Page 152

The conflict is now in full swing. Before Bernard arrived back, life was all stability and orderliness. However, their world is about to be turned upside down. The director, a man so confident before, is reduced to nothing in front of all of his colleagues. The order of social stability has been shattered with the arrival of his ex lover and his son. The city is taken up in a buzz and everyone wants to see how this mistake-this discovery- will turn out.