" My God, Catherine, stop making a fuss! People have been having babies for thousands of years without all this hoo-hah about fish and cigarettes.’ ‘Oh, for God’s sake!’ Catherine hung up, incandescent. And then, as quickly as it had flared, her anger fizzled out to nothing and she laughed instead. The call had certainly taken her mind off the break-in! And even if she’d told her mother about it, she shouldn’t have expected any sympathy from her. After all, people had been getting murdered for thousands of years without all this hoo-hah about knives and death threats … "