Everyone else caught on their phones seems anxious, alarmed, unhappily torn between worlds.
The story once again seems set to end unhappily.
Unhappily, it seems that no one can escape its entanglements.
Unhappily, it seems the next time we will see each other will be in court.
For me, back in the cabin, on deck twelve, with the floor at a tilt, and the bed the only safe place to be, the two conditions seemed mutually and unhappily self-reinforcing.
Single figures appear at odd points in a composition or are entirely left out of groups they appear to belong to, and every person in a group may seem oddly or unhappily isolated.
This idea may seem to sit unhappily alongside the simple oneness of the four.
"Unhappily, my body seems to be constructed in such a way that it keeps me alive in great discomfort when all I want is to be allowed to slip into a sleep, peacefully, legally, and without any threat to the medical or nursing profession," he said in a letter that attempted to explain to his fellow peers in the House of Lords why he no longer opposed assisted dying legislation.
And the extraordinary thing is that as middle-class, unhappily married Janet, she seems more of a casualty even than Vera Drake.
Peter is unhappily married, and he seems to have pilfered some of his father's belongings; Jack is a morose Lothario, his pursuits affording only the barest pleasure; and Francis, his head still bandaged after a motorcycle crash, is the organizer of the trip, who insists on ordering food for his siblings as if they were his kids.
