Malcolm was ready for a night out. It had been basically arranged earlier, he remembered. When they’d all left work, Malcolm had said he’d go home and get changed, have some food, and Tony had said that one of them would call around 8pm. Malcolm wondered why they hadn’t called. And then it came to him. They’d thought of calling, all three of his mates from work, they’d picked up their phones to call each other and him and work out where to go, and they’d been just about to speed dial Malcolm first when each one of them thought, ‘wait a minute, I don’t need to call Malcolm, because surely someone else will already have done it’ plz help me to analyse stylistics device ​