Agnes adjusted and kept a straight face. The place might have looked like paradise, but that didn't mean that she should forget herself there.
"It's nice. But..." She replied.
"No buts, Agnes. No buts," Jude said to her with a tone that was so calm, to the extent that it worried Agnes a bit.
Agnes looked at her phone and saw that there was no signal.
"Can't I make any phone calls from here?" she asked Jude hastily.
"Of course, you can. The phone is in the living room downstairs," Jude replied.
Agnes' eyes shone.
I...I mean with my phone?" she asked.
"Oh, no darling. You can't do that because I warded off my aerial from public connection. I can't be traced down here anyway, and the only phone calls I make from here have to be from the landline downstairs. It's just for security
