The woman snorted: Carey’s trouble wasn’t her problem right now - Emily was. On the other hand, family registered.
“It’s still the middle of the night in England too,” she made one last attempt to persuade Emily to call the authorities before anyone else.
“It doesn’t matter,” Emily said dully.
The hall that was reception was also the office. No one was up and about to overhear. The woman stacked a couple of logs in the fire-place, stoked the glowing embers of the fire to get it up again, went off to make more coffee shaking her head: she’d seen a bunch of things in her time, but these Programme people were headed right to the top of the list.
Emily called International Information to find out Colin’s number, which put her through to an English directory inquiry service. It was strange
