" "The cultures and lab tests take three days, and it's already Thursday," said Susan." "The cultures and lab tests take three days, and it's already Thursday," said Susan. "Ahh.... Nuts! We aren't going to be able to do it this weekend, are we. Damn!" said Alex with disgust. Ally looked astonished. "You mean the trip is off? Nooooo.... Please." Alex gently grabbed her left wrist and looked in her eyes. "Calm down Ally. We're only going to delay it a week to give the lab a chance to do the tests. You'll still go." "But I don't want to wait. I need this now. Please." "Ally," said Susan as she reached across the table and patted Ally's other wrist, "we can't take the chance. There's a tremendous amount of body contact on the island. Suppose you have some dormant or undetected contagious disease. There's two thousand people on that island. Do you want to be responsible for starting an epidemic? Ally, you have to accept the fact that we have very good reasons for doing this. |