Before I actually left the dorm, I stopped by Gordon Goodman's office.

When she had left the dorm room where Brenda and five other women slept, he tapped lightly on the window.

And the only fact we have established is that Guan left the dorm for a vacation around ten thirty on May tenth.

There was only one thing he had confirmed: on the night of May tenth, Guan Hongying had left the dorm before eleven o'clock.

Step by step, he left the dorm room and entered the darkness of the common area, hands reaching out in front of him.