and it takes an average man twenty minutes to walk a mile , so we would get there twenty minutes before the engineer did . `` it does n't have to be this way . '' i guess it 's true-a baby really can change everything . and just before he flicked the switch to work-mode , as i knew he would , i leaned in and kissed him once more , lightly on the forehead . that being so , though-would he take ship from the nearest port ? 