And it stopped. Ahead was calm clear light blue water maybe 30 feet deep. Behind was the hounds of hell. This side was sun, light tropical breezes and...an island with coconut palms... I KNOW that’s not on our charts. I don’t think that’s on ANYBODY’s charts.At the equator the days and nights are 12 hours each. Sunset is at the snap of a finger. This place had a magnificent sunset. We all stood, drinks in hand, Seven raised her glass and said, “May the winds of fortune sail with you, May you sail. I entered thekitchen and asked where Dad was and what was for dinner."Your father won't be joining us this evening. I told him about ourplanned shopping trip and he took it as an excuse to stay late at theoffice. As for dinner, I thought we'd eat at the mall. Does that sound allright to you? Now go upstairs, put your penny loafers on and while you'reat it, freshen your lipstick." "MOM!" I whined. "Do you want to go with me this evening or don't you?" she asked. How didshe know I was looking. “Help me up,” she said.Off kilter, and worried because of her strange behavior, not to mention her pronouncement that she was pregnant, Bobby simply helped her up. Her arms went around him on impulse, or maybe for stability. It wasn’t a lover’s embrace, but they were still naked, so it was inevitable that they would both notice that flesh-on-flesh sensation. It was also inevitable that she would look at her stomach, and she had to push him away to do so. Her hand went to smooth across her. At one stage, the gardens were said to be the best in the country.”“When you say the Hordern family, that’s as in the big Anthony Horderns department store? Can’t say I have heard of it. Why do you ask?”“We – that is, you, Lisa, Fiona and me – are going there for a week at the end of June,” she said.As I had suspected, Lisa and Fiona wouldn’t be able to take the week off from their places of work, but because there were now regular train services between Central and Bowral, they would take an.