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"
Ours
is
yours
and
you
are
ours
.
We
re
glad
you
re
safely
home
.
Just
now
the
others
are
all
at
services
or
teaching
.
But
there
s
no
hurry
;
they
will
come
when
waiting
is
filled
.
Would
you
like
to
look
around
your
Nest
?
"
Still
puzzled
but
interested
Ben
let
her
lead
him
on
a
guided
tour
.
Some
parts
of
it
were
commonplace
:
a
huge
kitchen
with
a
bar
at
one
end
rather
short
on
gadgets
and
having
the
same
kind
-
to
-
the
-
feet
floor
covering
as
elsewhere
,
but
not
notable
otherwise
save
for
size
a
library
even
more
loaded
than
Jubal
s
,
bathrooms
ample
and
luxurious
,
bedrooms
Ben
decided
that
they
must
be
bedrooms
although
they
contained
no
beds
but
simply
floors
that
were
even
softer
than
elsewhere
;
Patty
called
them
"
little
nests
"
and
showed
him
one
she
said
she
usually
slept
in
.
It
contained
her
snakes
.
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It
had
been
fitted
on
one
side
for
the
comfort
of
snakes
.
Ben
suppressed
his
own
slight
queasiness
about
snakes
until
he
came
to
the
cobras
.
"
It
s
all
right
,
"
she
assured
him
.
"
We
did
have
glass
in
front
of
them
.
But
Michael
has
taught
them
that
they
must
not
come
past
this
line
.
"
"
I
think
I
would
rather
trust
glass
.
"
"
Okay
,
Ben
.
"
In
remarkably
short
order
she
replaced
the
glass
barrier
,
front
and
top
.
But
he
was
relieved
when
they
left
,
even
though
he
managed
to
stroke
Honey
Bun
when
invited
to
.
Before
returning
to
the
huge
living
room
Pat
showed
him
one
other
room
.
It
was
large
,
circular
,
had
a
floor
which
seemed
almost
as
cushiony
as
that
of
the
bedrooms
,
and
no
furniture
.
In
its
center
was
a
round
pool
of
water
,
almost
a
swimming
pool
.
"
This
,
"
she
told
him
,
"
is
the
Innermost
Temple
,
where
we
receive
new
brothers
into
the
Nest
.
"
She
went
over
and
dabbled
a
foot
in
the
water
.
"
Just
right
,
"
she
said
.
"
Want
to
share
water
and
grow
closer
?
Or
maybe
just
swim
?
"
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"
Uh
,
not
right
now
.
"
"
Waiting
is
,
"
she
agreed
.
They
returned
to
the
living
room
and
Patricia
went
to
get
him
another
drink
.
Ben
settled
himself
on
a
big
,
very
comfortable
couch
then
got
up
at
once
.
The
place
was
too
warm
for
him
,
that
first
drink
was
making
him
sweat
,
and
leaning
back
on
a
couch
that
adjusted
itself
too
well
to
his
contours
made
him
just
that
much
hotter
.
He
decided
it
was
damn
silly
to
dress
the
way
he
would
in
Washington
,
warm
as
it
was
in
here
and
with
Patty
decked
out
in
nothing
but
ink
and
a
bull
snake
she
had
left
around
her
shoulders
during
the
latter
part
of
the
tour
that
reptile
would
keep
him
from
temptation
even
if
it
wasn
t
already
clearly
evident
that
Patty
was
not
trying
to
be
provocative
.
He
compromised
by
leaving
on
jockey
shorts
and
hung
his
other
clothes
in
the
foyer
.
As
he
did
so
,
he
noticed
a
sign
printed
on
the
inside
of
the
door
through
which
he
had
entered
:
"
Did
You
Remember
to
Dress
?
"