“Whatever it is the answer is no.”
Alice changed tack.
“Any problems dropping Matt off?” asked George.
“None to mention.”
“So there was a problem then.”
Lou was watching all of this from the bar smiling, “Like a lamb to the slaughter,” she whispered.
Alice produced the piece of paper that Lisa had given her, “Matt gave me this, said he’d call us later in the week. I told him we were waiting for our phone to be connected.”
George looked at the paper then at Alice, “No phone, right? No phone, they cost a bloody fortune and that’s final.”
Alice took the paper from him, “So we’re not worth a few bloody pennies me and Matt, are we?” Alice wiped a pretend tear from her eye, as she stomped to the door, “thanks George. Thanks a bunch.”
George looked around for help, “What did I do know? B
