The hardest thing about talking to teenagers, I had discovered, was that whatever you said inevitably came across like something an elderly aunt would say at a wedding.

They're paying her to sleep now. I could hear my father's exclamation. Praise the lord, she's found her dream career.

Good to meet you, Patrick," Will said."And thank you for the...advice.""Oh, just trying to help my girlfriend get the best out of her job," he said. "That's all." There was a definite emphasis on the word 'my.'"Well, you're a lucky man," Will said, as Nathan began to steer him out. "She certainly gives a good bed bath." The words came out so quickly that the door was closed before Patrick even realized what he had said.

You've forgotten your little car,' she called, as I swept through the door that Nathan held open for me.'Why, does that need a bloody badge too?' I said, and followed them into the lift.

Check his wheelchair for anthrax and ammunition