The rhythm of the church bongo drums had reverberated throughout the village for nearly two hours the previous evening.

The events of the previous evening, he is told, now belong to official judicial proceedings - in other words, to the state.

She remembered Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and what she had discovered the previous evening.

Katya, Candy's " Anna," had been identified through dental records late the previous evening.

Perhaps Elliania was still too dazed from the previous evening's late night and cataclysmic agreements to present any last-minute hurdles.