Possible Clues:

• Eats out, entertaining surgeon (retired) and docker
• Gradually weaken doctor's backing for worker in the dock
• Worker's first wife died in shop
• Eve strode out with dock worker
• Who may be working in Dover and Tees?
• Would the boy adore to have the doc's work, by the sound of it?
• How Stephen comes to the door at the dock
• Docker set off, drove recklessly, ending in catastrophe
• At the end of the street, what could she do about it for him at the docks?
• What can Stephen do about it if he finds himself in the dock?