”Presumably at some point they’d made love while I was living with them - how else could Elly exist? - but it wasn’t something I’d ever experi...nced. After half an hour, my father gave out one loud grunt and my mother gasped one loud gasp, and for a few minutes there was silence.Until they started again.I suppose I could have closed my door, but something stopped me. After all, the sound wasn’t offensive - it was just inconvenient. I was trying to sleep, but I couldn’t, not with the volume. I. ’ ‘I’m attempting to talk like a local.’ ‘You’ll do me girl,’ he laughed. Girl? Well perhaps relatively speaking because he appeared to be 70-plus. ‘I’m going down to The Landing. Briscoe’s open at 6.30.’ ‘And you are offering to buy and deliver anything we want.’ ‘Yeah and how did you know that?’ ‘I’m attempting to think like a local and know the general store is not just around the corner and the only way for folk up here to get there is by boat with a maximum speed limit of 8 knots.’ ‘Jesus. ”“So, what now?” I asked. “I can’t stay at my own place, for obvious reasons. And my parent’s just have a hotel suite for the two of them, I think they wanted a weekend away from the kids. I guess I could try and call my friend Mark. I could probably stay at his place tonight at least, but tomorrow he has some overnight thing at his church. Maybe I could stay with Sean on Saturday night….” I muttered as I tried to figure out what to do. It was already past 8 on Friday, working out last minute. ‘Thank you.’ Only a few minutes passed before the corporal guarding the gate walked over to their car. Sean lowered his window. ‘Captain Ewell is bringing Special Agent Anderson to the gate sir. He asked me to inform you that he will be here within two minutes.’ Before the guard could return to his station at the gate, a Marine staff car approached from inside the base. When it pulled to the gate the Corporal approached the driver’s window and saluted. After a brief exchange, the corporal.