Y'know, I don't think we've been in Tharka and Gana's office here since just about the end of storyline #16, "Toil and Trouble" about a year-and-a-half ago. And Tharka calling Mrs. Teasdale "Connie"? I can't imagine he'd do that if she were within earshot...
Still, here it is, only the second week of the story, and things are already spiraling off into peculiarity! And all I can promise is: it'll prob'bly get even worse!
Twenty-Seven - Foreign Correspondence