20 THE FUTUREThe contract arrived on the 29th along with a backlog of junk mail and late Christmas cards and Emma’s father handed it to them when he picked them up from the station. They both read it excitedly as he drove them back to the mansion. They didn’t expect to understand much of the legal jargon, but they were pleasantly surprised that it was written in almost everyday English. They thought that they understood it, and could find no clauses that raised any immediate concerns to their way of thinking.
When they arrived, Emma gave it to her father, who promised to have a look at it as soon as he had a spare moment. The first thing that Wayne wanted to do was go and say hello to Harry.
“It seemed all right to me too,” he told them at dinner, “but I faxed it over to McNabb’s for the
