“I know how Mick feels,” said Lennox.

“I know that many of us are filling up our otherwise unproductive periods by writing autobiographies these days, but I’m still getting enough screen time to keep me busy,” said Pandora, “Do you know much about my personal history?”

“I’ve seen you in those holiday reruns of ‘Marriage Ain’t Easy’, but you’ve never been on ‘This is Your Life’ or any personal documentary shows, have you?”

“No, and from what I’ve seen of the Sydney TV guide in my daughter’s newspaper, you won’t have had the chance to see any of my movies here either. I dated one man when I was 21-22, another when I was 23-29 or 30. Then I met the producer of ‘Marriage Ain’t Easy’ and really fell in love like never before, just as we were starting the show. It ran eight years, and we had a real life daughter during the sixth season. We broke up a few years later, and so I’m a single mother with a daughter your age.”

It was technically true, given that she had spent 19 years dating Bob without marrying him.

“No you’re not,” he said, lifting a tiny prawn out of his bowl of seafood with his finger and thumb and holding it up to her mouth, “Season six came out a year after I was born.”

Her eyes beamed affectionately at his humourous flattery, as her mouth opened to accept his prawn. While trying to make it look as though she was merely doing her best to eat something proffered by his finger instead of her own, she slid the top of her tongue gently under his finger, until he turned it a little and let the prawn fall onto the middle of her tongue, and then slid the front of it back into her mouth, maintaining the contact with the soft feel of his finger as long as she could credibly do so.

The prawn was a delicacy that did not rate very high in comparison to the first taste that she had experienced from that exercise. She knew that this was the one. There was no need to do any more hunting, unless this one couldn’t be persuaded to come to a giant land with her.

She had to persuade him! He was the most delicious and appetising thing he’d ever tasted. Whatever the waitress brought to her table was merely an appetiser for the meal towards which Pandora was ultimately working.

Lennox didn’t seem to have shown any uncomfortable reactions to her tongue’s approach to the receiving of his prawn.

“Thank you, both for prawn and compliment,” she said, “Mick and Reba have decided to move to another land, and one that’s accessible through an interdimensional portal of some sort which is only seven stations down your line and a walk into the bush behind the back streets of West Lindfield. The economic prospects for Mick will be much better than here. I’ve decided to move into their new area too.”