"Survivor?" Rupert's going to be on Survivor?" The man who sneered in derision was Rupert's mother's brother, his Uncle Mike.

"Can you believe it?" said his Aunt May.

"I'll bet he's the first one voted off, if they don't flat out drown him," said Mike.

"Mike, that's not a nice thing to say."

"The kid's useless," Mike said. "He hasn't done an honest day's work in his life. He flunked out of college and the last job he lost was at Captain Jack's."