Patrick
LOCKET ISLAND
“You and Daisy will get on like a house on fire,” I tell her. It’s so true. I can just see them together. A new mission will be great for Granny. She needs to care about somebody like she’s cared for Pip all this time. It brings out the best in her.
There is a pause that goes on for some time while Granny ruminates.
“Your Terry,” she says finally.
Terry. That lovely word. That word that fills me with hope.
“She’s one in a million. One in a million, do you hear?”
“No need to shout, Granny. I hear you.”
Granny frowns. “You treat her right otherwise I shall come straight back to Antarctica—even if it’s from the grave—and haunt you.”