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"A lion?" Suze says in horror "Daddy, you can’t have a lion here! It’ll eat the babies!"

"Gilbert, the lion belongs in the wild" Caroline looks thunderous "Free to roaeti Plain and seen a pride feeding at dawn…"

"Why does your dad want a lion?" I murmur to Suze as Caroline continues

"He wants to start a zoo and open it to the public," Suze mutters back "It’s one of his mad scheo, when Suze and I were sharing a flat in London, her father decided to become a tortoise breeder, and it was us who had to take a delivery of twenty baby tortoises and look after them all weekend

"The noble aniseemed to pass between us… "

"You can look at e" He belloith laughter "Eh?"

He looks so pleased with hile I just love Suze’s fao over to the church," I say, glancing at my watch "I’ll see you later…"

"That remindssome rubbish about ater for the baptism I said absolutely not! A bit of cold water’ll do these infants the power of good"

"Mummy!" wails Suze "I especially asked for ater! They’re still so tiny!"

"Nonsense!" boo in the lake! At the age of sixwith me up the Tsodilo Hills of Botswana No ater there!"

Suze gives rin back syo," she says "Bex, I’ll see you afterwards You will stay a couple of days, won’t you?"

"We’d love to!" I say happily

"Oh, and you must meet Lulu!" she adds, halfway out the door

"Who’s Lulu?" I call back, but she doesn’t hear

Oh, well I’ll soon find out It’s probably her new horse, or so