Except that when he picked it up, he saw that there was no return address on it. Anywhere. Life just gets stranger and stranger these days, Avery thou...ght, holding the box under his arm as he unlocked the door to his apartment. Maybe mom forgot to put the return address on it. She can be a little flighty sometimes. He set the box down on the coffee table and went into the kitchen. Avery grabbed a knife from the block on the counter and a soda from the fridge, then went back into the living room.. “I’ve got a madman running around mutilating bodies. I’ve got a foreign cop that I have to babysit hiding secrets from me ... what else am I missing?”“You are not superior. I do not have to answer to you.”“You’re a guest in my country,” Curtis says, his face growing hot and his anger barely being held in check. “You damn well have to answer to me. If not me then you won’t like who you will have to answer to.”“I give you courtesy at airport,” Yulia says. “I do not have to allow babysit.”“Oh, but. The business coat was only the first garment to depart from the Mother’s frame as piece by reluctant piece her outfit would be transferred into her daughter’s charge and draped upon the mahogany balustrade. Mrs. Leicester’s awkward hip-high tussle eventually gained the release of the protrusion holding the side of her matching periwinkle skirt waistband tightly together at her middle. Next the singing zipper announced her skirt would soon follow the jacket and decorate the mahogany railing by. 'Mummy ka hoga' I said thinking, 'Thank God I am saved'.I had however not reckoned with Birju's guile. He placed his palm firmly on my mouth and dragged me, naked as I was, with him to the phone. He picked up the receiver and said, 'Haalo'.The instrument made gawking noises. Birju said, 'Namaste memsahib. Haan sab theek hai. Minu bhi theek hai abhi bahar khelene gayi huyi hai (Good morning madam. Yes everything is all right. Minu is also well. She has gone outside to play)'.Hearing this I knew.