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• As I watched Lori reconnect with Sophie and Richard I suddenly realised that if Sophie was now her mother, then in some indefinable but very real way she was mine too; if Lori felt that she had Mother back, then maybe she did, which meant I did too; the idea stunned me. I finally got it, now it all made sense; now, with a sudden cognitive flash of insight I saw what Lori had been seeing and feeling all along. Now I knew who we were, who this was family that we had become, and where we were going.
• Jimmy appeared and loaded their luggage onto a pair of trolleys, and he pushed one while I pushed the other down to the car park. Sophie raised an eyebrow at the limousine, but said nothing while we loaded the luggage, saving it for when we were on the road. Once we were underway, Jimmy rolled up the privacy screen, sensing that there was family-stuff coming, and he didn't need to hear it. Once the screen was up, Sophie raised that eyebrow again.
• "A chauffeur, David? Really? I thought you were above such things!"