“Of course you can… there’s always a place for you here, but what’s the problem? Can’t you tell me now?”
“No, not really, I don’t want to, not over the phone… Mike’s sitting here now and he says that if I go home, then he’s going home too.”
“Yes, well, Soom, that’s probably for the best… don’t try to talk him out of that. You don’t want him left in the house with that Fah, do you? She’s only about twenty-five and she wears such short skirts for housework as to be inappropriate… no, you let him go home and be grateful for it.
“This isn’t about the baby, is it? It, she, is it still all right, eh? There haven’t been any complications?”
“Eh? Oh, no nothing like that, I had a check-up today, everything’s fine with the baby. It’s the rest of my life that’s screwed up and I want to come and t
