Red came to my side, wrapped her arm around me as she raised on her toes to kiss me. "Ready to make her day?" she asked me. All I could do was nod. ...Great, let's go find some toys," she said, as I wondered what she meant. I did not have anything. I followed her like a lost puppy as she gathered up chopstix and rubber bands, paper clips, my old golf balls, a couple of forks, my belt, my feather duster, some clothes pins, some ice cubes in a dish, a couple of thin water bottles with warm water. Yourdarling stepson."The youth in question stood behind Veronica and ignored such comments. Hehad a game to be getting on with on his phone. There was a moment of hushas the two women looked at him with disgust. To make sure they did, hespread his denim jacket and stuck a thumb in his jeans pocket, so thatthey could read his tee-shirt: Fu*k off or I'll call the P*gs. Themanageress spoke again."I'm pleased to meet you, Jason. When your stepmother spoke to me lastnight about how difficult it was. ”“Lund ? Te aavo kadak hoy ? Mare lund kem nathi ?”“Tu-n chhokari chho etale tare lund na hoy, tare bhos hoy. Chhe ne tara be pag vchche ?”“Ene to piki kahevay. Pan lund jado j kem rahe chhe ?”“Beta, lund hamesha kadak na hoy, chodavanu-n man thaay tyare j aavo thaay.”“Uncle, aa chodava nu-n etale shu-n ? Atyare tamaro lund kadak chhe etale tamane chodava nu-n man thu-n chhe?” Hu-n hath vade Ravi no lund ramadati hati.“Jo, beta, tari bhos ma-n ek kaanu-n hoy chhe. Ema-n lund ghali ne andar. Not that I haven’t had a number of offers to share a space, but most of them usually involved a very short term cohabitation.”Constance just nodded her head. It didn’t take much imagination to figure out that it was more than rent the temporary roommates were looking to share.“Given that car you were driving, I figure you must have a really nice place back home, wherever that is,” Joan added.“It suits me,” Constance said, leaving out the details of the ten room split level she owned, “and the.