They worked on the plumbing all morning—starting on the servants’ bathroom. Hard, filthy work, with lots of creeping about on one’s back. After his afternoon sun worship David stayed outside. He’d found some gardening tools in a shed and tackled the front acreage, stripped to the waist and wearing his videoshades. Laura saw that he had fast-talked the two gate guards into helping him. They were trimming wild ivy and pruning dead branches and joking together.