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90%u201cOkay. Just me then,%u201d she said with a smile.%u201cOh, right. Well, yes if you%u2019re having one.%u201d He told her.She returned with a full bottle of Jameson%u2019s, two whisky glasses, and thumped them down hard on the wooden table. Luke was still sitting their wearing nothing but his socks. She sat at the table and poured out two glasses and pushed one towards him.%u201cFor the craic,%u201d she said and chinked his glass.%u201dShe threw her head back and swallowed it in one go.He picked up the glass and did the same, then started coughing like he had just swallowed a lump of burning coal.She chuckled. %u201cI see you%u2019re not used to Irish whisky.%u201dWhen he recovered, he said, %u201cFirst one I%u2019ve had.%u201d%u201cWhere are you from, Luke. I can tell from your accent, you%u2019re not English, and hopefully, I don%u2019t believe you are a German.%u201dHe smiled. %u201cNo. I%u2019m not from the Luftwaffe. I have no parachute hidden in the woods. I%u2019m Canadian.%u201d%u201cWhere were you going when you crashed?%u201d%u201cI was headed for London,%u201d he replied. %u201cI understand your questioning. Let me pre-empt them.%u201dShe poured two more drinks out. There were whisky shots, not even filling a third of the small glasses.%u201cPlease do,%u201d she said.%u201cI%u2019m an historian. I was driving up from Brighton to deliver a serious of lecture in the capital,%u201d he lied.Kelly had a rare instinct. She always knew when another person told her a lie. She said nothing about disbelieving him.%u201cHistory repeats itself,%u201d he continued. %u201cMy lectures were to advise government officials on the things they should focus on to ward off The Time Traveller