“There’s a pull-out in the master if it comes to that.”

“If it comes to that.”

“You’re the one who set the whole thing up.” He picked up his plate.

“Nobody’s going to say boo to you.”

“And the driving?”

“Doug takes the first shift, Thomas takes the second.” He said it easily, the way a man says a thing he has already said a hundred times in his own head.

“Gemma’s on the last stretch.”