Good Things That Come From Mexico

It is over. Mrs Hume has hung the last load of washing on the line, including some that has been to Mexico.

Yes, the children's Mummy and Daddy have come home.

Fish has a new red polo shirt and a realistic Mexican snake. Butterfly has two grown up Mexican bracelets. One is pink and silver. The other is white.

Mrs Hume has a Mayan sun symbol made of plaster of Paris, but the best thing of all is that the week is over and nothing has gone wrong.

Except that she seems to have mislaid Arthur.

Arthur has not returned from seeing Pastor Moon.

Mrs Hume makes a phone call.

Is that you, Moon? says Mrs Hume.

Speaking, says Pastor Moon.

Have you by any chance seen Arthur? says Mrs Hume.

Who is this? says Pastor Moon.

You know very well who it is, says Mrs Hume. It's me Katherine. Where is Arthur?

Upstairs, says Pastor Moon. He's staying with me for a while. It's nothing to do with you.

Good heavens! says Mrs Hume.

Exactly! says Pastor Moon. I know that deep down you believe in it.

I do not believe in any of it, says Mrs Hume. I hope you are not attempting to do an exorcism. It is just a misunderstanding about his DNA.

Hocus pocus! says Pastor Moon.

Exactly! says Mrs Hume. I know that deep down you don't believe in it.

Pastor Moon slams down the phone. That was not what he had meant.

Mrs Hume sighs. Will she attempt to rescue Arthur, or will she go home alone?

She remembers the plaster of Paris Mayan sun, and the popularity of Mayan predictions. She takes the sun out of its wrapping, and consults the symbols, hoping to find an answer.