I hope this won't go any further than you and me, and it certainly won't happen again." Doug, it's me who should be sorry. I let you get in to the sit...ation, because I wanted to. I wanted it to happen, so don't go blaming yourself. But of course as far as I'm concerned it didn't happen and it won't happen again. I'm sorry Doug, it was all my fault, bye." I didn't feel any better about myself. I went out in to the lab. and wrote another note for Ian, asking him to proceed with a modified prep. I. “Nobody wants to travel at night.” We got to a rickety building at the end of the platform and he unlocked the padlock. I could see two of our trunks in the dim light through the door.“And all our trunks and crates are in there?”“Go in and check if you like,” he said.Right. Who wants to go in the spooky cellar first to see if there’s anyone waiting for us? As if I hadn’t seen any teen slasher movies.“Lock it,” I said. “If it is not all there when we collect it in the morning, I will know who to. His wife pointed out that it was achoker and that it matched his teddy. He gave her a wan smile, unhookedit in the back, put it around his neck, and refastened it by touch. Itfit closely, so he was glad it had some stretch to it. But if she wasgiving him something like that, maybe she wasn't quite ready to changehis fashion regimen. He held back a sigh of disappointment and pulledout the next item. When he unwrapped it he found a small set of color-coordinated cosmetics. They were all in. The reverend cut that bit of wishful thinking off before it got him hospitalized or killed outright."I do," Miranda answered. If that runty little preacher gets any slobbers on the front of my dress I'm going to deck him right on the spot. Then she remembered her five foot five cousin Brian and what happened the time they went skinny dipping a couple of years ago. I swear I thought he was going to lick my tonsils when he got his nose in my goodies. Pity the only long thing about him was his.