wed decided to hide him in the bushes at the beach to sleep it off . he stared round the office , the same office his father had used and his father before him . but looking at the ring of water , i 'd never felt farther away from the surface and all things familiar . it tends to take a long time . '' not only with being her first after such a long drought ... but with this ? in fact , she 's more or less adopted one of my top men . '' 