Maybe a little snuggle or two." Giggle.We drove home together talking about what we'd seen, making plans for a serious expedition in the springtime, m...ybe to a river with real rapids as opposed to the slow, flat Louisiana waters. While I stowed the two kayaks in the ceiling of the garage, Nikki bounded inside with our ice chest and the blanket bag.I joined her inside. First order of business was a shower. We spent way more time in there than we needed for purely sanitary purposes, then got out. " Suit. I'll get back to you asap when I get details on this; meantime not a word about this." Agreed. Definitively. See you soon, Diana. Higgins clear."Deep in thought, Higgins returned to his table to find two more places had been set. His unspoken enquiry was waved off by his wife. He began nibbling at the appetisers, but they could have been made of wet cardboard for all he noticed. His attention was several parsecs away — BuShips to be precise and he was most definitely not remembering. He couldn’t move any part of his body except his eyes, but he could still hear. What he heard was the approach of another vehicle, but he couldn’t move his head to bring whatever it was into the limited sightline that his eyes presented him.Kazan was not a small man. He stood over two meters and weighed just over one-hundred-thirteen kilos, but the two black men picked him up and carried him to the white van with apparent ease. No words were spoken as the door to the van was closed and he knew. Do you know where there are any more?"Richard smiled and shook his head. "I'm afraid not," he said. "There's only one like this." Well," said Neil. "If Friday was such a great day you'd better show me the ring, Deborah." She did and Neil was duly impressed."Thank you so much, Neil," she said. "What was going to be a good day was made a fabulous day by you and Geoffrey. It was a brilliant idea to get him in on the act but it was also very, very kind of you to arrange it all at such short notice.