“No, Mae, it completely slipped my mind.”
“But it’s,” she checked her watch, “nearly one o ‘clock. That makes you four hours late… Won’t they have missed you?”
“Yes, they will, but they don’t phone. They just give you a boll… good telling off the next day… wipe the floor with you in front of everyone.”
“I think it would be a good idea to ring them, don’t you? I can’t see Soom being there tomorrow to get even more punishment for being with you, can you? You’d better tell them that it will be at least a fortnight before she’ll be in, but perhaps a month. I don’t know about you… How are you?”
“I’m all right, thank you, Mae, just a few aches and pains and a splitting headache.”
“Good. Now phone the bank.” The word ‘good’ was said ambivalently, she was glad that he had a sore head, but she
