| She held it in her hand for a second before lifting the presents out, relocking the car and going back up the path to the house where the twinnies waited expectantly. |
| He thought that in five years' time, when he retired and the twinnies were settled into boarding school, they would begin a whole new life together. |
| Soon she'll make you a nice strong cuppa, and tonight my twinnies will come, and put in their long-distance phone calls to the fiancee in Toronto and the lover in South Carolina. |
| So the twinnies trotted to the next house with a loaf of bread and two turn-overs in their basket. |
| She was certain now that once the twinnies were born, Miles had put their own life together on hold until they could be alone together again. |
