At that point things were settled when Katy explained that most nights we would all sleep together and the separate bedrooms were a fiction solely for... appearances. She also suggested that each of them have one night a week that would be their own special night alone with me. Katy took the role of momma in that instance and soothed Suzie's ruffled feathers. She organized everything and more of less told me what I needed to do. Kind of the function that my friends said their wives performed for. Curiosity got the better of me, I’m afraid.” “Well, no harm done,” the man said. “You look a little hot and bothered. Perhaps you’d like to join us for a glass of lemonade?” Jonathan saw the hamper sitting by the side of the blanket. “You know,” he replied, “that’s not a bad idea at all. I do feel a little faint. Although I do hope I’m not making a nuisance of myself?” “Not at all, old man,” came the reply. “He’s not disturbing us at all, is he Penelope? In fact we’d rather like the. "I got up to get more drinks."What if one of you gets out?" Weena asked."Hard to know. Willy's got just over five years, I think. Depending on how they count, I've got 20 or 23." Why the range?" I asked."I enlisted right out of secondary school and the Navy put me through University and OCS. So they might count from date of commission or from date of enlistment."I looked at him. "So you could retire." Guess so." If you could live anywhere, where would you go?" Maclean." In New South Wales?". Spook, they could kill themselves!" Her voice had run up the scale pretty good by the time she got to the last."Is this not only speculation?" Spook asked her."I don't know, I guess maybe," she said miserably.If she didn't know, I did know how to find out. "Can you access their information and run probabilities, Spook?" I put in. He'd do it, and his assessment would be better than anything either Lee or I could concoct.Evidently he didn't like the odds. "What would you have me do, Lisa?" he.