She thought it was her alarm so she smacked that first, when the banging continued she finally pulled her head out from under the pillow and realized ...omeone was at her door. She dragged herself out of bed and pulled on an oversized t-shirt and ran down the stairs."Do you not realize what time it is," She yelled as she opened the door to find Chase standing there next to Mrs. Fischer, "Oh dear." Good Afternoon, dear," Mrs. Fischer said as she stepped inside with her grandchild in tow."Mrs.. And he’s the one making his wife wear the scarf so...”Lily was grinning too. I sighed. “Right let me go and find a bit of branch.”“Extra large, we got,” Jaz reminded me, “that’ll be ninety-fifth percentile won’t it, same as you are.”I caught on just in time: “ ... Never you mind what size I am.”“Well we want to know your bit of wood’s realistic don’t we.”“It’ll be realistic enough.” I abandoned the argument, wondering if these two had been looking at my bulge, or if their mother had been. I go to the message box, type simply “Katie” and press “send”. I am about to put the phone down on the bedside table when it rings.The caller ID says “EB”.My shaking hands almost drop the phone in my haste to answer.I say: “Evie?”“Katie?” Her voice.We speak together then stop after a few words, confused.I try to order my thoughts. “I didn’t know if you were awake,” I say, “so I sent the text message.”“Oh Katie,” she says. I am not sure if I hear a sob in her voice. “I couldn’t sleep. . Unfortunately so many of the people now running airlines are money men who just look at the bottom line, and want to get their aircraft back in the air as quickly as possible, regardless."Confidentially, that's a Singapore Airlines aircraft out there, they had just cancelled their contract with us, so it was never checked out before it took off. I can't be absolutely certain that we would have found the fault, but I'm confident that we would have."This is an interesting operation you have here..