Luke and Cath were eating a belated evening meal in the kitchen at Cuckoo Nest while Angie and Zanda were happily cooking for Sy and Kingsley in their cottage. Angie had walked out of the back door with the comment: "I"m not abandoning my feminist values; I"m getting to know some interesting folk." Kingsley in particular, her mother thought to herself.
As Luke and Cath continued their meal in the easy silence that had developed between them, his sharp hearing picked up the sound of an approaching motor before it had reached the stackyard. He was on his feet and out of the door before Cath realised what was happening. From the stackyard shadows he watched the vehicle pull up near the back door, as he phoned Sy to alert him to the uninvited arrival.
His astonishment left him speechless as
