‘Xavier. At last. You took longer than you said.’
‘Shh.’ Xavier shot a worried look at Joe and Kim. ‘They don’t know.’
‘What don’t we know?’ said Joe, pausing in his attempts to saw through the packing tape. ‘What’s going on here?’
‘Can I explain once you have opened that up? Can we know whether Emma is in there?’
Joe hesitated.
‘Please?’ wheedled Delphine in a curiously child-like voice.
‘Joe, if she is in there, we need to get her out - fast. She’s been in there too long as it is,’ Kim urged. She was as mystified by Delphine as her husband, but remembered the cramped appearance of Xavier when first she saw him in his box. ‘We’ll discuss the rest of this afterwards.’ She nodded her head towards the young woman, who had come to stand quietly beside Xavier.
Joe redoubled his efforts and cut through the tape. Kim took a step forward as he pulled the flaps apart and they peered into the box together.
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