They say every nation has a government it deserves. If that's true, we can expand the basic proposition and say that every man has a wife he deserves, and every woman the husband. Whilst we're thinking about that, we can concentrate of Mrs Irene Thatcher. Right now, she's at the airport waiting for her husband, standing at Gate 17 where Intercontinental flight 4 from Paris is disembarking its passengers. She waits, and waits... Is it possible he missed the flight?