Marathe as Steeply's reference-point during the E.T.A. infiltration

texture · 11 Nov YDAU

• When: 11 Nov YDAU, Enfield Tennis Academy (Steeply undercover as "Helen Steeply" of Moment)
• What: As Steeply works the parallel half of the operation — infiltrating E.T.A. under journalist cover to cultivate the auteur's family, watching the Hal-vs-Stice match and interviewing deLint and the Québecer prorector Poutrincourt — Marathe surfaces only in Steeply's memory and in the narrator's comparisons: Poutrincourt's shrugs and sidelong manner are "not unlike Rémy Marathe's," and Steeply recalls Marathe's observation about American body language. [Attribution note: Marathe does not appear in scenes 127/130 (Steeply POV); recorded here as the standing cross-reference between the two agents' simultaneous November operations.]