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“What?” interrupted Jill, “Stupid?...”

She screwed up her face and crossed her eyes at him in the mirror.
“Just be careful,” laughed Jack, “OK?...”

They pulled into the car-park and Jack found a suitable space to park. Jill put on a blonde wig and adjusted it, brushing it into shape with a comb and tucking in stray locks of her own sandy brown hair,
“Duh, should’ve bought a black wig,” she said, looking at herself in her hand-mirror, ”Now I’m a blonde, I might just do something dippy...”
“Jill...”
“Joke, joke. Give me a break Jack.”
“Sorry. I’m just nervous. They’re just as likely to watch us and toy with us for a while, than come out of the shadows and arrest us.”

Jill strapped herself into baby harness and lowered Hillary into the pouch,
“For heaven’s sake,” she sighed, “They’re not playing hide and seek. They probably don’t even know we’re gone, and by the time they figure out what we’re doing and where we’re going, we’ll be on the ferry and half way across the ocean.”

She leaned forward between the front seats and put her hand on his shoulder,
“Now go and feed this hungry machine and I’ll meet you back here in half an hour.”


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