‘Are we going back to the café with the lunatic women?’ Gramps asked, once they were back in the car. ‘We’re going home,’ Beckett said. ‘And that’s really not a nice thing to call someone.’ ‘If they don’t want to be insulted, then they shouldn’t behave like imbeciles.’ ‘Also not an okay word.’ ‘Why are the woman and the baby here? Have we kidnapped them?’ ‘We invited them over for the morning.’ ‘What, to our house?’ Gramps sounded incredulous, and then he did something Beckett hadn’t heard in, well, hardly ever. Gramps started to laugh. Not the reluctant chuckle Beckett had occasionally heard
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