Jon handed over their passports and then carefully but quickly answered their questions."Married, yes" The dam, we've been here 6 months." No I'm not ...n official of the president, I'm a private contractor."The smaller man wiped his brow but did not speak allowing the officer to do the questioning.Now Zoë had to answer questions."No I've never met the president, " No I know nothing about that." Yes, yes I would like to leave, so would my husband."The smaller man suddenly interrupted with his own. ”“That’s true. It’s the cheating and duplicity that bother me. Declaring Australia uninhabited! That gets me.”“But Kipling felt that way, too. Remember, the Rhinoceros is in ‘the desolate and Exclusively Uninhabited Interior which abuts on the islands of Mazanderan, Socotra, and the Promontories of the Larger Equinox’.”Patrick laughed. “Right. The Parsee doesn’t count as an inhabitant!”“And the Just-so Stories were published in 1902!”“So there we are! And Kipling was talking about India.”“He. But don’t worry because by the time your daughter will be laughing almost hysterically and saying hell will have to freeze over before she’ll go out with me.’ Teddy grumbled and said the agreement was a pain in the butt. ‘Would you consider an amendment — that I’m not required to tell Leah?’ ‘Sure, and if she wants sex I’ll say my personal ethics prevent me from seducing my step-sister.’ ‘Oh great. Go and get changed and I’ll pour drinks — a beer?’ ‘Yeah great Teddy.’ The tone of the evening. Marg and I need you with us.”“OK, just let me have a quick shower and I’ll join you.”I went in and had my shower. It took a lot longer than it should have because I was trying to wash some of my thoughts away but that was impossible. When I returned to the bedroom Julie and Marg were both asleep. Julie was facing my side of the bed and Marg was spooning her. I climbed into bed and lay looking at Julie for some time. She opened her eyes.“Are you going to sleep or are you just going to keep.