Nell: Why are you staring at your iBone like that?
Me: I want to track Alice and the grandchildren but it won’t let me.
Nell: Quite right, too. Stop being so nosey.
Me: They’re flying to Toronto today and I always track the flights.
Nell: Why can’t you?
Me: They need to be in the air and they’re not flying until later.
Nell: Put the iBone down then, please and talk to me.
Me: I mustn’t forget.
Nell: As if that would ever happen.
Me: Are you going to track my flight next Tuesday?
Nell: Maybe. It depends.
Me: On what?
Nell: On what we have planned and whether we can stay awake. You don’t land until nearly midnight our time, you know.
Me: Don’t I?
Nell: Why are you smiling?
Me: You’re definitely going to track me.
Nell: Talking of tracking, reports have been coming in of a particularly sinister veiled creature prowling the village at night.
Me: Gosh. That sounds awfully scary.
Nell: Villagers have noted mean eyes and sharp teeth.
Me: I shan’t be going out at night for a while.
Nell: Well, fortunately you’re not Harriet.
Me: What do you mean?
Nell: Never mind. It’s confidential.
Me: Tell me.
Nell: Sally has asked Harriet to try and get some photos of the creature.
Me: I don’t think that’s a very good idea. It has sharp teeth.
Nell: Harriet is a trained spy.
Me: She’s my darling Chocolate Girl.
Nell: Don’t start all that nonsense.
Me: Fine, but I’m going with her.
Nell: You are not.
Me: I’ll wear my all-encasing hat.
Nell: Good grief.
Me: And I won’t scream very loudly when we see it.
Nell: You won’t scream at all because you’ll be here at home tracking Alice’s flight to Canada.
Me: Oh yes. Sorry.
