‘Alice Springs,’ her head popped up, ‘we need Jo-Jums back, now please.’ Jack was issuing orders from the stair doorway, waiting for Mandy. ‘Get Frankie and Confucius, I need them on the computers, if you could get into that now I would be most exceedingly obliged, my lovely.’
‘I’m here, Jack,’ a furtive Jo-Jums slipping from the tea room.
Alice had her hand up, ‘Frankie and Connie are in the ladies locker room.’
‘Well, get them out, this is urgent.’
‘Do you have a twitch in your eye, Sir?’
‘What’s that got to do with the price of fish?’
‘I was thinking back to when you stormed Osama’s, know what I mean nudge, nudge?’
Jack caught on, ‘Okay, knock a few times if you have to, but get them back here, blimey it’s all going on here today.’
‘Or not,’ Jo-Jums said as a sheepish Wallace ap
