“Guys, where’s Mummy?” a girl called across the kitchen to her siblings. It was late in the day, and the children were finishing after-school snacks that their mother had prepared before she’d stepped out of the room with a vague “Back in a minute.”

“She’s in the office. On the computer,” said the girl’s brother.

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