No, no.’ I just smiled at him. ‘Grandma . . .’ he intoned. ‘What are you saying?’ ‘Just that it all fits.’ ‘What fits?’ ‘The incre...singly powerful experiences, the numerous liaisons, the sense of completion after only one time, it’s the new Dispensation. There are very few gods and goddesses on this planet right now. The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. We cannot afford to distribute more than one celebration to our supplicants.’ Paul just sat there, but I could see it sinking in.. "Or maybe from inside the pool area." He pointed in another direction."Maybe," she said as she carefully walked around The Clubhouse until she'd nearly circumnavigated it. "But it's been a while. Maybe whatever it was is over."Alan listened carefully. In fact, the boom box had been turned off while Ivan and Ryan moved to a new position where they couldn't be seen, so even the occasional distant scream had come to a halt. But just as Alan was about to agree with Christine that he didn't hear. Their father and his ex-secretary have a little girl, Jessica (we'll call her Jes) born just over a week ago. Not to be left out, their mother is having a child in a week or two. She looks more beautiful than ever. I hope I look that good when it's my time to have children.Sue married Jeff, Dr Bradley. He has an IQ off the scales but won't listen to common sense. Wes was messing around with his mother in late July. She's going to have a baby in late April. That's nine months. Jeff and Sue got. And no, I didn't fuck her.' She looked at me appraisingly.'Are you telling me what to do?''I'm suggesting that till I came here you had a pair of disasters on your hands and now you're half way to having two independent young adults who won't resent you and your husband for being shitty parents, and who'll go off and build lives for themselves without interrupting your social whirl. Isn't that what you hired me for?' She looked a little ashamed.'Not quite as brutally as that, but yes, I suppose.