“Once he’s in that situation, he’ll just have to accept the fact that I’m going to eat him. So your family planning works in with my previously hopeless dreams rather well,” said Pandora.

“Mom, that’s really something!” said Reba, “Well I always keep secrets we’ve shared as mother and daughter, even from Dad when he was around. I won’t tell Mick or Bob what you’re planning. I do feel a bit sorry for whoever that younger man turns out to be though.”

“He won’t know about it until he doesn’t have to wait that long for it to be all over with,” said Pandora, “I’ll have the whole time to look forward to it, while he thinks he’s courting me.”

“I guess he can enjoy that part of it as well,” said Reba.

“Well if the destination is an Upsizing colony best accessed from Sydney, Australia, then I’d better do my manhunting right here,” said Pandora, “Bob’s going back to the States in a few days for short directing engagement. Then he’ll stop taking on jobs and help with working things out over here. Can your Upsizing process really move our house from all the way over in the States up to the giant land?”

“I asked them about that, because I wanted to know before I brought up this move with you, Amanda and Megan both assured me that the teleportation screen can bring something from anywhere on earth to the giant land,” said Reba.

“Then I think I’ll give Bob some instructions and written authorities about winding up our financial affairs over in the United States. Then when he comes back here with the gold we need, we can have your friends Upsize it and finalize our arrangements with them,” said Pandora.

When Bob had left Sydney, Pandora got up early one morning, and took a train to North Sydney station, with a view for taking the Lavender Bay walk that Reba had recommended. As Pandora came up the station steps, she saw a very handsome and very young man handing out paper catalogs. She made sure to walk in his direction, and accepted one of the handouts. She stopped and browsed through it, and then put 39 years of film star charm to work.

“I don’t know if I’ll ever need any of the things advertised in here,” she said, “But I’d love to purchase a good lunch for you instead.”

“Have we met before?” asked the young man, in a friendly manner, “I’m Lennox.”

“If I seem familiar, I’m Pandora Montague. You’ve most likely seen me on ‘Marriage Ain’t Easy’. My daughter tells me it’s rerun almost endlessly here.”

“Of course! You played the wife! So that’s why you’re so pretty,” said Lennox, reaching out to the right to hand catalogs to other passing passengers who had alighted from trains.

She blushed and smiled.

“That was in my 30s. I’m turning sixty soon,” said Pandora.

“I’ll soon be 25. It was around ten years ago, that I was channel surfing one morning in the school holidays, and came in early in a black and white episode of ‘Marriage Ain’t Easy’,” said Lennox.