I hope you don’t mind that Joe Don kissed me just now. I think he’s the best friend I have in the world and he’s really helped me to see things ...ifferent.”“I was really excited when you kissed each other. I’m sure if you told the truth, you’ve done more than kiss.”“Mary Ellen, it was before we met you. I really needed my cousin and now I want to be close to both of you.”“Hey, I wasn’t mad. In fact, not only do I want to see you fuck him - I want to help him fuck you next time. He and I are. "And?" Alfie leaned his head to one side questioningly."And... I suppose you follow in his footsteps. They say you are the heirapparent." Gillian sipped her drink coyly."And?" Alfie's eyes bore into hers."And you make money from other, shall we say, undisclosed sources ofincome." Gillian raised her eyebrows."Very diplomatically put I must say." Alfie clinked his glass against hers."Well I should know; I actually work for you... well sort of," Gillian saidcoolly.This took Alfie aback. He. The story of her arrest and interrogation by the 'CIA', provided by Mr McEwan repeating, he said, what his wife had told him was quite simply astonishing. Grantby hoped at first that it was pure fantasy, but perhaps not entirely..."Special Branch were asked to take this further. They received 'complete and unequivocal denials of any CIA operations in the UK at that time', they said." So if the CIA are actually being reasonably open on this occasion, what do we think was going on?" I think they. I fieldedquestion after question without, I hope, giving too much away as to thetrue nature of my time in Paris.To be honest, the 'return of the Prodigal Son' wore a bit thin after thefirst week home. For example, ours is a three-bedroom house and I havetwo younger brothers. Before I went to Paris they had to share a room.Whilst I had been away, one had moved into my room. Now that I was back,they had to share again and neither brother liked it. Of course, it was'all my fault'! I wasn't too.