"At the end of August," she repeats, just as steadily.

"Kim, this is a joke. It has to be. You can't just up and move to England in a little over a month. It's not like moving to . . . Vancouver. There are rules and regulations and my God the paperwork probably makes the forms I'm filling out for McGill look like a pop quiz. There's no way you can get all that done in a month.

"So what's going on here?"