Why must everything happen in due time? That is what he wanted to know. He understood things having a due date. That was a certainty if you accepted the calendar. But what was a due time? Time was a construct, a measuring system, seconds, minutes, hours, all neatly divided so you could identify any single point in the future if you agreed what time it was now. But when was due if you were not Italian? He supposed he would find the answer in due time.