"I can explain," said Matt. "I was going to tell you but just didn't find the right time," he said to his parents."Right time!" said Mrs. Balo. Her hu...band didn't do much talking but just listened to what everyone was saying. "The girl is six months pregnant and you've been home three times in the last three months and you couldn't find the right time to tell us?" I'm sorry Mom." Sorry doesn't cut it Matt. What could you possibly have been thinking?" She looked at me and asked if they could be. .. very strongly about you. Celeste is an attraction, certainly, but if I decide to commit to this family, it will not be because she’s part of it or not.”Since it had come up a couple times when the Go5 discussed this subject, I decided to ask her.“Whether you join the family or not and whether she does or not, would you be interested in sharing that house with her? Carol has told her that the other bedroom may be available. Has she asked you about that?”“Carol hasn’t mentioned it, but I’ve. I will stay in this place for a time. The elders have sent me to bring greeting to you, and to speak of our common enemy. But I sense Jord is waiting, and he must hear this as well.”The child’s mother timidly approached the unlikely cradle and reached to retrieve her daughter, and Ylva licked her hand as she picked up the little one. The woman hesitated, her eyes widened, and she said, “Yes, I will care for her as you say.” She reached out one tentative hand and touched the side of Ylva’s. "We're going to have to prove we're not the uncultured barbarians he claims we are, we're going to have to be such paragons of politeness and proper behavior that the undecided's cannot find fault with us. And we're going to have to provoke Laney, without seeming to, into revealing just what a walking colostomy bag he is. Amazingly similar, in fact, to what I did to Paul." Indeed," said Madame Cornelius. "And after tonight ... after this humiliation, we will wait and see how many of our other.