“Yes, OK, you’re probably right. You never said where the kids are.”
“I’m not really sure, I thought they’d be back by now… They went off together to see about some birthday party or other on the weekend.”
The Lees had two children, one of each, and they counted themselves lucky for them, because they had been trying to have children for ten years before their boy was conceived. They were twenty and sixteen now, so Mr. and Mrs. Lee had long given up hoping for any more.
They had stopped trying long ago too.
However, they were good, respectful and obedient children and they made their parents proud, or at least, what their parents knew about them made them proud, because they were just like any decent kids: 90% good, but could get up to mischief too and had secret thoughts that they kne
