Chapter 5
2
Getting to the library at 8:30, I walked into the main office, signed in and generally went through the usual motions of starting the workday.
Mary breezed in just in time.
“You’ll be caught out one of these days,” I cautioned in my mock parental voice.
“I know, I know. I got chatting to the milkman and lost sight of the time.”
“Is he a dish?” I asked.
“About fifty, thinning hair and suffers from B.O.”
“My kind of man,” I joked.
“I’m sure you could do better than him. Anyway, he’s got a wife and three kids. He was telling me about his youngest, Amy I think. That was what almost made me late. She’s got herself in the club. Seems she and her boyfriend thought if they did it standing up, she wouldn’t get pregnant.”
I frowned. “She won’t, will she?”
Mary looked at me with astonishment written all over her face. I couldn’t hold my serious countenance any longer and began to grin at her.